On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Erwin Dokter <erwin(a)darcoury.nl> wrote:
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.