I mean… I hear you. It’s worthy of consideration.
But this is actually ancient classic design philosophy. Nearly every English Bible skips enumerating verse number 1 - it’s understood that the first verse of the chapter is verse 1. At the same time, the chapter number is a drop cap, meaning it is huge compared to the rest of the text.
They did the same thing with January here.
I get it, it’s not the 1600’s anymore - most people don’t obsess about fonts like I do.
I’m just saying, it’s not unheard of to do it like this.