Who's Al and Where's Webfont Legibility?

Have you heard about Al? Al is literally everywhere. Who's Al? Al Guidance - How Al uses...

Have you heard about Al? Al is literally everywhere.

Who's Al?

• Al Guidance - How Al uses Al as a Senior Developer
• Al site builder, real time collaboration and more
• How AI (not Al) Remembers and Why It Forgets

So who is this Al guy?

Joke aside, here are some screenshots about ...

... "AI" not "Al" of course, but in most web fonts you can't visually tell the difference. You still can't. In 2026. Despite decades of accessibility awareness advocacy and legislation. We've made WCAG criteria mandatory, at least in theory. The 2025 European Accessibility Act followed prior US legislation. We await WCAG 3 and its APCA algorithm, but we still fail to use legible web fonts?

You can call me Al. Al uses AI. All AI Al's been using.

Just in case you haven't heard of Atkinson Hyperlegible. It's not a proof of concept but a popular webfont:

Ubuntu's default "Ubuntu" font provides slightly more subtle and elegant legibility. Here is an example where I added "(not Al)" to the original website for the sake of my point:

So, Nadia Makarevich's post about AI is already legible and unambiguous, unless my mobile mail box on Android displays it out of its original context: