I guess Andika was put first, because it is a sans-serif font with a weight similar to Arial/Helvetica, our main text font (until we get our own design, which should be quite soon). Compare 

[![compare fonts][1]][1]


<sub> The first line is Arial and the second line TeX Gyre Heros (to emulate Helvetica, which I don't have on this machine).</sub>

I don't think we can blame the designers of Andika, because the "double-storey" `a` (U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A) isn't specified to be *double-storey*, although many fonts do use a double-storey `a`. Moreover, the "single-storey" `ɑ` is actually not an A, but U+0251 LATIN SMALL LETTER *ALPHA* (whatever a Latin alpha is supposed to be...).

I would support a change that helps distinguish `a` and `ɑ`, but (hopefully) by the time this would get implemented, we already have a new body font. I assume the new design will use a sans-serif font (to pair with a Japanese Gothic font), but maybe it will be lighter, so that pairing with Gentium might actually look reasonably good:

[![open sans and gentium][2]][2]  
<sub>This is Open Sans (as used on http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/)</sub>

    


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