On 2013-10-29 1:13 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jared Zimmerman
<jared.zimmerman(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org>>
wrote:
We have an action item to change the order from the free fonts
that are visually similar to the specified non-free fonts, I don't
think* that this will change the experience for user without those
fonts but we'd have to do some testing, it really comes down to if
we specify Helvetica Neue, and a particular system thinks that
should match a different free font than the one we thought was a
best match.
Just to confirm: I did a quick test, and it appears that on OSX (10.9)
Chrome and Firefox interpret font family settings the same using the
order Tim suggested. So the output is still Georgia headings and
Helvetica Neue body.
One question... it seems like specifying Helvetica regular and Neue is
slightly redundant. Is there are reason we don't cut Helvetica regular
from the list?
From my memory there were versions of OSX that had Helvetica but not
Helvetica Neue.
Hence `"Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica"` will pick the best
Helvetica available for the computer.
Makes sense since Helvetica Neue was an iteration that was created later
than Helvetica.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://danielfriesen.name/]