Timeline for We are switching to system fonts on May 10, 2021
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| May 15, 2021 at 23:38 | comment | added | Gwyneth Llewelyn |
As a humble collector of fonts, my thanks to @Adám for Atkinson Hyperlegible and Plex Sans; both were promptly added to my collection. Thanks so much! Regarding the issue under discussion, I wonder why SO didn't simply go with defining the default sans-serif font as, well, sans-serif. This will be replaced by whatever OS/browser font is set by default, and can freely be changed by the user (without tweaks, scripts, or any other 'tricks'). That's, AFAIK, what Wikipedia does.
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| May 12, 2021 at 13:48 | comment | added | John H | @Adám It's really good of you to link those to me. I'm still experimenting with the others, but this is very kind of you - thank you. I think I prefer the Go fonts already! | |
| May 12, 2021 at 10:54 | comment | added | Adám | @JohnH … and I've now found a 3rd option: Go fonts (Download) | |
| May 7, 2021 at 12:01 | comment | added | Adám | @mdfst13 Except such requests will be refused: "Themes can specify what elements use serif, sans-serif, or monospace fonts." i.e. not which fonts at all. | |
| May 7, 2021 at 10:46 | comment | added | mdfst13 | Then I think that is why they are saying that it is completed. They can set site-specific fonts. If you want a font change for a specific site, you might be better off posting in that site's meta. Because first you want to get community consensus on the site and then ask for a change to that specific site from Stack. Getting community consensus on the common Meta doesn't ensure that the font will be correct for the specific site. So customizations on a per-site basis should be discussed in each site's meta. | |
| May 7, 2021 at 10:24 | comment | added | Adám | @mdfst13 I think it is quite clear that the post speaks about sites wanting specific fonts. E.g. it says "Sites that use Unicode characters extensively, like Japanese.SE, will want" and "sites that need an alternate font". | |
| S May 7, 2021 at 10:22 | history | suggested | Flimm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 7, 2021 at 10:09 | comment | added | mdfst13 | Note that what they status-completed seems to be: allow each site to customize its fonts. What you seem to want if I'm reading the request correctly is to allow each user to customize the fonts. It might be worth editing that into this suggestion so that it is more obvious if Stack employees read it. Or if I'm misunderstanding, perhaps more explanation would help (it doesn't matter if I understand, but you don't want Stack employees to misunderstand). | |
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| May 6, 2021 at 18:42 | comment | added | John H | Adam, that's really thoughtful of you to link those fonts - I appreciate that. I'll give them both a try and see how I get on. | |
| May 6, 2021 at 18:21 | comment | added | Adám | @JohnH I recently, to my delight, discovered Atkinson Hyperlegible. So far, it and Plex Sans are the only sans-serif fonts (that I've found) featuring both slab-serif uppercase Ɪ and lowercase ɭ with a tail, allowing immediate stand-alone recognition without requiring the other character adjacent to be sure what | means. | |
| May 6, 2021 at 12:57 | comment | added | John H | Thanks for posting this. As someone who is legally blind, but has some vision, Segoe UI has been the bane of my life since upgrading to Windows 10. I've sunk hours into doing whatever I can to get away from it because of how dreadful a font it is. I agree with @Davbog's answer. I don't care about whether something will "feel that much more native", I want to be able to read the content without straining my eyes doing so. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 19:39 | history | answered | Adám | CC BY-SA 4.0 |