Hi! According to the Deployments page on Wikitech, Typography Refresh is scheduled to be enabled for all users of the Vector skin sometime next week https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=105227#Next_month.
As I like my skin the way it is, I have two questions: (1) Can someone from the Design team confirm that the deployment will actually happen next week, and (2) if so, how can I opt-out of the change without having to edit my own common.css (or vector.css) stylesheets?
I have very strong negative feelings towards Typography Refresh because of the shade of grey it uses for article text and the way it changes link color from blue to grey, which makes it very hard for me to read the text due to my poor eyesight, and would therefore prefer not to have to use it.
Tomasz
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski <tomasz@twkozlowski.net
wrote:
As I like my skin the way it is, I have two questions: (1) Can someone from the Design team confirm that the deployment will actually happen next week,
This is tentative. We are setting a firm date tomorrow after a prioritization meeting,
and (2) if so, how can I opt-out of the change without having to edit my own common.css (or vector.css) stylesheets?
I have very strong negative feelings towards Typography Refresh because of the shade of grey it uses for article text and the way it changes link color from blue to grey, which makes it very hard for me to read the text due to my poor eyesight, and would therefore prefer not to have to use it.
Have you tried the Typography Refresh lately Tomasz? Link color has not been changed to grey in the sidebar/personal toolbar for many versions now. That and other things were updated months ago, and the beta feature has gone through six major revisions based on feedback from the community. I'd encourage you to try it again once. The body text (not link) color has changed from pure black, but still meets AAA standards for accessibility according to WCAG guidelines.[1]
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh#Why_did_we_change_the_body...
Steven Walling wrote:
This is tentative. We are setting a firm date tomorrow after a prioritization meeting,
Thanks for the information. Can you please let us know on this mailing list when the decision is made? If the change is coming next week, I would really like to feature it in the next issue of Tech News.
Have you tried the Typography Refresh lately Tomasz? Link color has not been changed to grey in the sidebar/personal toolbar for many versions now. That and other things were updated months ago, and the beta feature has gone through six major revisions based on feedback from the community. I'd encourage you to try it again once. The body text (not link) color has changed from pure black, but still meets AAA standards for accessibility according to WCAG guidelines.[1]
Thank you; I like this version much better than the one I tested before (even though the text color makes it harder for me to read stuff).
Is there any way for me as a user to opt-out of the deployment when it happens, or will I have to undo the changes by editing my own CSS stylesheets? And if so, can you point me to a file I would need to look up to do it?
Tomasz
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski <tomasz@twkozlowski.net
wrote:
Thanks for the information. Can you please let us know on this mailing list when the decision is made? If the change is coming next week, I would really like to feature it in the next issue of Tech News.
Absolutely. I will try to put something directly in Tech News as soon as we set a date.
We're also trying to get the FAQ on the mediawiki.org "Typography Refresh" page translated.
Have you tried the Typography Refresh lately Tomasz? Link color has not
been changed to grey in the sidebar/personal toolbar for many versions now. That and other things were updated months ago, and the beta feature has gone through six major revisions based on feedback from the community. I'd encourage you to try it again once. The body text (not link) color has changed from pure black, but still meets AAA standards for accessibility according to WCAG guidelines.[1]
Thank you; I like this version much better than the one I tested before (even though the text color makes it harder for me to read stuff).
Is there any way for me as a user to opt-out of the deployment when it happens, or will I have to undo the changes by editing my own CSS stylesheets? And if so, can you point me to a file I would need to look up to do it?
Yes, you'll need to edit your stylesheets. Do you just want to change the body text color back to pure black? I can show you how to do that really easily.
Steven Walling wrote:
Yes, you'll need to edit your stylesheets. Do you just want to change the body text color back to pure black? I can show you how to do that really easily.
No, I'd also like to change the heading font to the one we use right now, and perhaps make some other changes.
I can deal with this on my own, but I'm unsure which of the three files mentioned at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh#Code_links I need to take under consideration.
Tomasz
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski <tomasz@twkozlowski.net
wrote:
Steven Walling wrote:
Yes, you'll need to edit your stylesheets. Do you just want to change the
body text color back to pure black? I can show you how to do that really easily.
No, I'd also like to change the heading font to the one we use right now, and perhaps make some other changes.
I can deal with this on my own, but I'm unsure which of the three files mentioned at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh#Code_links I need to take under consideration.
The only file you'll need to edit to override the typography changes is your personal vector.css file, e.g. User:Kaldari/vector.css.
Ryan Kaldari