GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why?

#1

Post by Diastro » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 2:01 AM UTC

Im not to sure why but github is now using Helvetica Neue. Am I the only only that find this change a bit weird.

Example : https://github.com/Diastro/Zeek

Re: GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why?

#2

Post by bengunnink » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 2:13 AM UTC

Preferred Sans-Serif font of the guys who did Bootstrap, who are now working for Github (or at least Mark Dotto is).

Re: GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why?

#3

Post by ZeroGravitas » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 9:48 AM UTC

Only for Markdown text apparently:

.markdown-body: "Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,freesans,sans-serif

body: Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif,"Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol"

You don't explain why you think it's weird though? I'd imagine they assume it's a well tuned font for the platforms it's found on.

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#4

Post by coppolaemilio » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 11:47 AM UTC

looks so much better! the other font was ultra-big and bold.

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#5

Post by bnycum » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 2:27 PM UTC

Just a guess, Helvetica Neue is the new system font of Yosemite.

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#6

Post by elwell » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 2:47 PM UTC

What was the old font?

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#7

Post by dreamdu5t » Thu, Aug 07, 2014, 9:33 PM UTC

It wasn't just the font. They removed the borders around code blocks, added padding, made the background color lighter, changed the font-size to 16px from 15px and changed the spacing of lists.

Personally, I don't like it at all.