We asked for the Windows machine to test hinting at small sizes on the
Windows platform because we didn't feel like a virtual machine could put
the concern to rest. To learn more about Hinting - See
.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:19 PM, S Page <spage(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Ryan's excellent patch
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118106/> that
prefers F/OSS fonts is merged, you can try it on beta
labs<http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Sandbox>while it rides the 1.23wmf18
train. I updated the Typography
refresh <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh> page to
reflect this.
Isarra Yos asked:
Has it ever been specified why mw needs a font
stack in the first place?
The Goals section of the Typography
refresh<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh>page is incomplete,
it's missing a fundamental:
* Because designers*: improve the appearance of the fucking site.
"mw" may not need a font stack at all, maybe "the site" here is only
WMF
properties. Steven Walling, could you clarify the goal? As Jon Robson
pointed out earlier in this thread, WMF can have settings to *only apply
the font choice to Wikimedia projects*.
When and if the typography update moves out of Beta feature and into the
Vector skin, MediaWiki could go out with straight serif headers and
sans-serif body, while WMF sites get the carefully-deliberated font stacks.
Cheers,
--
=S Page Features engineer
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