Does anyone have a legitimate, realistic, technically sound reason why "Libertine Sans" should be chosen over Arial other than "it's free and open sourced"? Have we thought about all of the technical issues (such as being readable in ancient browsers, or even browsers that don't support css)?
I've no real opinion in any direction, mind you, except that I want to make sure we serve the greatest selection of users possible.
(Fwiw, the reason Arial was chosen was because a) it's sans-serif and b) it's available on a massive percentage of machines in toto.)
On Jan 5, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 01/05/2013 07:14 PM, Krinkle wrote:
However, if we go with Arial, it would be worth specifying that Arial should be immediately followed by Liberation Sans (and perhaps one or two other free fonts) for systems without such a mapping.
Matt Flaschen
Why not the other way around?
font-family: "Liberation Sans", Arial;
I'm good with that.
Matt Flaschen
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