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Slice 18, a designed typeface.

• Inter replaces the system font everywhere. It comes through Next.js's font loader (next/font/google): the font files are downloaded at build time and served from the app's own /_next/static/media/, so the visitor's browser never contacts Google. No new package. Sizes, weights and spacing are unchanged.
• Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://github.com/rsms/inter, LICENSE.txt), which allows bundling it with software.
• To keep the text from jumping, Next adds an "Inter Fallback" face (local Arial resized to Inter's metrics) that shows until Inter arrives. In Chromium on Windows, with Inter held back, the transcripts page grew 20px of 7,216 when it arrived, against 72px with plain Arial. Where Arial isn't installed (Linux, Android), the system font shows until Inter arrives.
• The build now needs Google Fonts to be reachable.
• New end-to-end test (tests/e2e/pages.spec.ts): every page uses Inter with the resized fallback, the font files come only from the app, and nothing is requested from Google. It fails on main's layout.
• Changes nothing in src/server or src/lib, so nothing the model receives changes.

Local checks (2026-10-21): verify (472 unit tests) and test:e2e (64, 1 new) passed. Page checked at 1440px and 375px on a dev server with the fakes.