On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>..
> By "lower quality" I mean both subjectively, but also objectively. For
> example, today I was reading
> https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Hamilton_wins_%27incredible%27_Bahrain_race,_F1%27s_900th_Grand_Prix
> (enwikinews is one of the few wikis I haven't overridden the font
> changes with css). At first I thought there was a typo in the image
> caption toward the end of the page, an extra space between "prote" and
> "stor". But no, the kerning on the font chosen is just literally that
> bad, that you can't tell if it is an extra space, or just a kerning
> error. I call that objectively bad (There's other things I don't like
> about the font choice, but they are more touchy-feely subjective)

I can reproduce this. It looks _very_ bad on Firefox/Fedora Core 19,
and but it also appears to a lesser degree on Chrome/Fedora Core 19.

Compare it against monobook

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Hamilton_wins_%27incredible%27_Bahrain_race,_F1%27s_900th_Grand_Prix?useskin=monobook

See also the "ама" in the bold title in the first sentence of

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/?oldid=58319520

vs

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/?oldid=58319520&useskin=monobook

-- 
John Vandenberg

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