On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote:

> Has it ever been specified why mw needs a font stack in the first place?
> Sure, when specifying only the generic type of font, the fonts different
> systems chose do look a bit different, but why is this a bad thing? From
> what I understand, these fonts are usually the most readable ones for the
> systems in question, hence why they are the defaults.
>
> So why do we want to override this?
>

MediaWiki itself does not really have a font stack, and no one is pushing
for core to have new font settings that impact all skins. Individual skins
have font stacks, and the Typography Refresh beta feature on Wikimedia
sites impacts Vector's font stack. Vector itself was redesigned primarily
with Wikimedia use cases in mind, and this is being carried forward in the
beta. But for MediaWiki in general, no change is being requested, and
people are encouraged to hack the site CSS however they like on a third
party install or as needed locally through Common.css or personal CSS.

-- 
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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