On 27 October 2013 19:37, Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have never and will never ship a proprietary font to users who do not
> have one installed, and I think we should maybe make that an official
> policy if it isn't already. However, specifying better font families for
> users that already have them can and has improved the experience for
> millions of readers. Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki seem like dinosaurs,
> even within the FOSS community, by enforcing a standard of using whatever
> random sans serif a user has, and nothing more.


OK ... and the tradeoff of the designer assuming the non-free font,
and it just happening to look like garbage with any free font?


- d.

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