To their credit, they do have a World icon, in large view it has
"English" next to it.
Zooming shows they use Helvetica.
http://weare1910.com/sites/default/files/project/wikipedia_new_desktop_full…
There is no evidence all serif fonts are worse for dyslexics.
Some some serif fonts perform adequately.
You can't throw away all serif fonts just because some perform poorly,
unfortunately it’s not that simple.
http://www.luzrello.com/Publications_files/assets2013.pdf
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Kaity Hammerstein
<khammerstein(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Here's their original post - bigger pics and
explanation
http://blog.weare1910.com/post/75576312730/a-readable-wikipedia
Because they have no constraints, they could have done so much better! Not
very creative or inspiring
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Oh, joy. Another group of people who don’t understand that the
multiple languages thing is Wikipedia’s *most important feature* so they of
course scrap it entirely.
I can’t zoom in on the photos but that looks like a serif font for
everything, so I guess dyslexics aren’t supposed to use this, either.
Design is easy when you don’t have to worry about real-world
constraints.
On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This showed up in my Google alerts. This one
looks a lot like the
existing mobile website... :)
http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/wikipedia-design-layout-change.html/wikipedia-r…
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