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/] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
