On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Erwin Dokter erwin@darcoury.nl wrote:
I forgot to include the URL:
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Typography_refresh# Languages_problems
Out of all of these, the most clear is that serifs are not great for the headings in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) languages. This seems to be true even of default 'serif', per https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63817
In the interim, I'm going to help the wikis with these languages if they want to set a local override. Starting next week, I think Jon and I would like to explore how to extend our Less variables to set a better default for headings in CJK languages. (I will file a bug today).
This is a pretty important enhancement for the long run I think. There are wikis like Farsi and Japanse Wikipedia that have needed to override the default settings basically forever, to get good basic readability. If we can use Less to set language-specific fonts then we can start upstreaming some of the settings that have lingered in Vector and Common CSS for a long time.