On 2013-10-29 1:13 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jared Zimmerman > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > We have an action item to change the order from the free fonts > that are visually similar to the specified non-free fonts, I don't > think* that this will change the experience for user without those > fonts but we'd have to do some testing, it really comes down to if > we specify Helvetica Neue, and a particular system thinks that > should match a different free font than the one we thought was a > best match. > > > Just to confirm: I did a quick test, and it appears that on OSX (10.9) > Chrome and Firefox interpret font family settings the same using the > order Tim suggested. So the output is still Georgia headings and > Helvetica Neue body. > > One question... it seems like specifying Helvetica regular and Neue is > slightly redundant. Is there are reason we don't cut Helvetica regular > from the list? From my memory there were versions of OSX that had Helvetica but not Helvetica Neue. Hence `"Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica"` will pick the best Helvetica available for the computer.
Makes sense since Helvetica Neue was an iteration that was created later than Helvetica. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
