https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56346

--- Comment #57 from Erwin Dokter <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #41)
> (In reply to comment #37)
> > Autonym (which will by definition never be as good as a native font like 
> > Arial on Windows)
> 
> I don’t understand the logic of this. Arial is hardly a great typeface
> anyway.

Don't confuse design with legibility. Arial is the default sens-serif on
Windows, and renders *very* well on Windows. Autonym renders *very* bad on
Windows, because the font (and its source FreeSans) were never desigend with
Windows in mind, and therefor lack any hinting.

> A simple fix for much of this would be to embrace installed fonts, and push
> Autonym to the bottom of a font stack that includes the default sans-serif
> fonts on the various platforms. I wonder if, indeed, “font-family:
> sans-serif, autonym;” would work to make this font the fallback’s fallback.
> Ideally, it should only be rendering text that would show up as tofu. Ideally.

I doubt it. Windows usually uses the first available font in the font stack and
sticks with it, and revert to its default unicode font if it can't find a glyph
(usually Lucida Sans Unicode).

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