On 2013-10-27 8:04 PM, Isarra Yos wrote:
I found this to be a good part why arial was so damn unreadable on my linux setup, for instance, though even with it rendering properly now it's still narrower than I find comfortable as well. Perhaps this is just because I'm used to wider, but going against what people are used to (and thus have effectively trained their brains upon), or especially what they might have specifically customised (in particular large or dyslexic fonts come to mind as a specific usability issue here), also seems like an odd move.
And yes, I know it's a standard move that websites tend to make. It's still odd, and I can't say I like that folks are trying to take mediawiki/wikimedia in a similar direction, even without the question of whether or not the specifics are free or not.
Actually I read something related recently: http://www.64notes.com/design/stop-helvetica-arial/
I started experimenting with browsing Wikipedia using 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; and a less black text color (ie: lower black-white contrast). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dantman/vector.css
... Btw, I've also been experimenting with a script that uses history.replaceState to fix the title on redirect pages for quite some time now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dantman/vector.js
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]