To their credit, they do have a World icon, in large view it has "English" next to it.
Zooming shows they use Helvetica. http://weare1910.com/sites/default/files/project/wikipedia_new_desktop_full.jpg There is no evidence all serif fonts are worse for dyslexics. Some some serif fonts perform adequately. You can't throw away all serif fonts just because some perform poorly, unfortunately it’s not that simple. http://www.luzrello.com/Publications_files/assets2013.pdf On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Kaity Hammerstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's their original post - bigger pics and explanation > http://blog.weare1910.com/post/75576312730/a-readable-wikipedia > Because they have no constraints, they could have done so much better! Not > very creative or inspiring > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Brandon Harris <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> Oh, joy. Another group of people who don’t understand that the >> multiple languages thing is Wikipedia’s *most important feature* so they of >> course scrap it entirely. >> >> I can’t zoom in on the photos but that looks like a serif font for >> everything, so I guess dyslexics aren’t supposed to use this, either. >> >> Design is easy when you don’t have to worry about real-world >> constraints. >> >> >> >> On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > This showed up in my Google alerts. This one looks a lot like the >> > existing mobile website... :) >> > >> > >> > http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/wikipedia-design-layout-change.html/wikipedia-redesign-1910-2#!xCd2D >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Design mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >> >> --- >> Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Design mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > -- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye African Network for Localisation http://www.africanlocalisation.net/ Nkótá ya Kongó míbalé --- http://info-langues-congo.1sd.org/ DejaVu fonts --- http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ _______________________________________________ Design mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
