Is everyone clear on why Hinting is a problem for text at small sizes?
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/03/14 21:19, S Page wrote: > > Ryan's excellent patch <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118106/> that > prefers F/OSS fonts is merged, you can try it on beta > labs<http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Sandbox>while it rides the > 1.23wmf18 train. I updated the Typography > refresh <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh> page to > reflect this. > > Isarra Yos asked: > >> Has it ever been specified why mw needs a font stack in the first place? > > > The Goals section of the Typography > refresh<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh>page is incomplete, > it's missing a fundamental: > > * Because designers*: improve the appearance of the fucking site. > > "mw" may not need a font stack at all, maybe "the site" here is only WMF > properties. Steven Walling, could you clarify the goal? As Jon Robson > pointed out earlier in this thread, WMF can have settings to *only apply > the font choice to Wikimedia projects*. > > When and if the typography update moves out of Beta feature and into the > Vector skin, MediaWiki could go out with straight serif headers and > sans-serif body, while WMF sites get the carefully-deliberated font stacks. > > > So is 'to improve the appearance' the given reason for having a specific > font stack, then? > > -I > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > >
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