The use of LESS variables make it possible to override the font stack
in LocalSettings.php. It would be trivial to only apply the font
choice to Wikimedia projects other than
if we wanted to.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Isarra Yos <zhorishna(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Has it ever been specified why mw needs a font stack in the first place?
Sure, when specifying only the generic type of font, the fonts different
systems chose do look a bit different, but why is this a bad thing? From
what I understand, these fonts are usually the most readable ones for the
systems in question, hence why they are the defaults.
So why do we want to override this?
MediaWiki itself does not really have a font stack, and no one is pushing
for core to have new font settings that impact all skins. Individual skins
have font stacks, and the Typography Refresh beta feature on Wikimedia sites
impacts Vector's font stack. Vector itself was redesigned primarily with
Wikimedia use cases in mind, and this is being carried forward in the beta.
But for MediaWiki in general, no change is being requested, and people are
encouraged to hack the site CSS however they like on a third party install
or as needed locally through Common.css or personal CSS.
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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