On Apr 29, 2014 3:43 AM, "Steven Walling" <swalling@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> FYI, if you're interested in continuing to talk about this and related
> issues, I strongly encourage Wikitech subscribers to join the Design list.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org>
> Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:42 PM
> Subject: Typography refresh, now that dust has settled
> To: "A list for the design team." <design@lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> For curious, I wanted to share a quick update on the typography refresh.
> The following four recent pieces of news that should be of interest...
>
> 1). The French Wikipedia community closed their vote on most aspects of the
> new design (color, size, new headers, etc.) and it was very much in favor
> of keeping the new design in all aspects.[a]
>
>  2). Spanish Wikipedians also closed their vote, which was more of a simple
> yes/no on whether to revert. This was also in favor of keeping the new
> design.[b]
>
> 3). Jon Robson has put up a patch to allow LESS styles to be set
> per-language.[c] This means that many local site hacks, like Japanese
> Wikipedia removing the serif headers or Farsi Wikipedia having to set
> completely different Farsi-friendly fonts, will potentially no longer be
> necessary. Review and testing is needed!
>
> 4). For some time now MediaWiki.org and the test replica of English
> Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org) have been using a new proposed
> body font stack by Erwin Dokter. This puts Nimbus Sans L first, and
> restores the other body font settings like Helvetica Neue for Mac users,
> Arial for all Windows users etc. Please try it out, especially if you're on
> Windows or Linux. We'd like to put this in Vector/core at some point, if we
> can make sure it works.
>
> Thanks!
>
> a.
> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Prise_de_d%C3%A9cision/Affichage_par_d%C3%A9faut
> b.
> https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votaciones/2014/Sobre_la_actualizaci%C3%B3n_tipogr%C3%A1fica#No
> c. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125760/
>
> --
> Steven Walling,
> Product Manager
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/

Is there at this time any interest for a test tool for fonts where users can rate the qualities if a font we are looking for? I posed the same question on wikitech before the dust settled, but that might have been too soon.

--Martijn

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