It’s a long-acting shot.

Nov 1, 2026

Recently, John Gruber linked to a prior rant about how much he dislikes Apple Notes using a single-story lowercase a, despite liking Futura (which I also like).

It doesn’t bother me, and though I’d like to try switching from San Francisco to New York, I may even like it.

But a font detail I’ve developed an aversion to, is a lowercase g with an conspicuous “ear.”

While it’s moslty a serif problem, as a typical sans-serif g looks like:

There are exceptions.

A serif g with an inconspicuous ear looks like:

Conspicuous serif ears typically have ball terminals. Some like The New Yorker Caslon’s don’t look bad, the font’s just too fancy for most, but not all, writing.

A lot of g ears are droopy like an ear, while others are more erect like an antenna:

But the worst I’ve seen is NPR’s: