Also with LESS we would be able to substitute the font variables on a per language basis with a little tweaking. This is pretty trivial to do and I'd suggest a reactionary approach.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mar 3, 2014 4:58 PM, "Ryan Kaldari" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Yes, we only looked at Latin fonts. We are working on an FAQ, however, >> that >> > explains how wikis that use non-Latin scripts can specify their own font >> > stack using MediaWiki:Vector.css. >> > >> > Ryan Kaldari >> > >> >> I dont think users should be responsible for that sort of thing. Could we >> do per-language css and only do this on en/other known good languages if we >> know that its going to be a bad choice for some languages? >> > > There are only a couple of languages in which we know this stack will be a > "bad choice" (so far, Navajo and Vietnamese). In most languages that use > non-Latin scripts, the font-family declaration will have little or no > effect, but the readability will be improved by increasing the leading and > font-size. Specifically the existing small leading is often a problem for > Indic scripts and the existing small font-size is often a problem for > logographic scripts. > > Ryan Kaldari > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
