On Apr 29, 2014 3:43 AM, "Steven Walling" <[email protected]> wrote: > > FYI, if you're interested in continuing to talk about this and related > issues, I strongly encourage Wikitech subscribers to join the Design list. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Steven Walling <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:42 PM > Subject: Typography refresh, now that dust has settled > To: "A list for the design team." <[email protected]> > > > Hi everyone, > > For curious, I wanted to share a quick update on the typography refresh. > The following four recent pieces of news that should be of interest... > > 1). The French Wikipedia community closed their vote on most aspects of the > new design (color, size, new headers, etc.) and it was very much in favor > of keeping the new design in all aspects.[a] > > 2). Spanish Wikipedians also closed their vote, which was more of a simple > yes/no on whether to revert. This was also in favor of keeping the new > design.[b] > > 3). Jon Robson has put up a patch to allow LESS styles to be set > per-language.[c] This means that many local site hacks, like Japanese > Wikipedia removing the serif headers or Farsi Wikipedia having to set > completely different Farsi-friendly fonts, will potentially no longer be > necessary. Review and testing is needed! > > 4). For some time now MediaWiki.org and the test replica of English > Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org) have been using a new proposed > body font stack by Erwin Dokter. This puts Nimbus Sans L first, and > restores the other body font settings like Helvetica Neue for Mac users, > Arial for all Windows users etc. Please try it out, especially if you're on > Windows or Linux. We'd like to put this in Vector/core at some point, if we > can make sure it works. > > Thanks! > > a. > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Prise_de_d%C3%A9cision/Affichage_par_d%C3%A9faut > b. > https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votaciones/2014/Sobre_la_actualizaci%C3%B3n_tipogr%C3%A1fica#No > c. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125760/ > > -- > Steven Walling, > Product Manager > https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Is there at this time any interest for a test tool for fonts where users can rate the qualities if a font we are looking for? I posed the same question on wikitech before the dust settled, but that might have been too soon. --Martijn > > > > -- > Steven Walling, > Product Manager > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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