On Apr 8, 2014 12:10 PM, "Isarra Yos" <zhoris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/04/14 06:57, S Page wrote: >> >> In https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/ (go back to sans-serif) >> Legoktm claims "There was a consensus that listing only non-free fonts was >> not acceptable", that's not my recollection. Was a bug ever filed? >> >> Kaldari valiantly tried to put non-free fonts first, that caused bug >> 63512. Now as I understand it, we're back to: >> * Mac users get Helvetica Neue >> * Windows users get Arial unless they have Helvetica Neue (unlikely) or >> Helvetica (I can't reproduce bug 63662) >> * Linux users get whatever F/OSS font fontconfig supplies for the >> well-known string "Helvetica", I get Nimbus Sans L >> * Android users ?? (Nobody responded.) > > > Linux often gets arial. Anyone with wine will probably have it installed, too, and most will have wine even if they don't use it. It's not necessarily a particularly good copy, either.
I have wine. However firefox on my linux seems to think Nimbus sans is a good match for helvetica and displays that. Arial would look much better. (This is just an aside, if it was only me having font issues, i would suck it up and get over it. Im concerned with the larger context) --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
