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/Affichag... b. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votaciones/2014/Sobre_la_actualizaci... c. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125760/