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issues, I strongly encourage Wikitech subscribers to join the Design list.
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From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)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(a)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/Afficha…
b.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votaciones/2014/Sobre_la_actualizac…
c.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125760/
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/