On 11/03/14 21:19, S Page 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.
So is 'to improve the appearance' the given reason for having a specific
font stack, then?
-I