On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Matmarex has submitted a patch set to remove the font stack that is used
in certain parts of the interface (e.g. login, signup, post-edit feedback).

This triggered a re-opening of discussion at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44394 , which had been
dormant for a while.

To summarize:

There are basically two reasonable directions:

1. Pull out the custom stack used in these isolated parts of the
interface. Matmarex and Ori favor this approach.
2. Do a global Vector font stack. Initially, I would recommend we just
use the body stack (which is really the subject of the bug), and
consider the heading later.

I think #2 is the right direction, and I recommend we get serious about
it. But if people don't think we can do #2 in a reasonable period of
time, we should do #1.

Please reply at the bug
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44394)

Update:

Disregarding the question about if/when to remove the font stack in mediawiki.ui, progress is being made on the more important discussion about Vector's font stack globally. Jon Robson submitted his draft for comments and review, and feedback is coming in. No one is in a rush to merge this, but it's good get to a discussion rolling with some new styles to see. For now, you can check them out on a Labs instance my team has volunteered to act as a temporary (i.e. subject to change at any time) testbed. It's at toro.wmflabs.org.

I think another next step is documenting more about why we want to make these changes. Right now the wiki page doesn't really answer this question very well. There comments by Quiddity and I on this at Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Design/Typography, on mediawiki.org.

Steven Walling

https://wikimediafoundation.org/