Whatever it is, its legibility is horrible.
Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
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Re: Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
#12Yes, the new font-family is now: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";
System default would be leaving the font family unspecified, no?
Re: Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
#13I wonder if they looked at the difference in markdown look on OSX+Chrome. Bold is completely broken, see screenshots comparison here (tweeted at Github): https://twitter.com/MrOlovsson/status/752843094765236224
Re: Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
#14Seems like it.
Re: Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
#15I like Segoe UI, so this works for me, at least.
Re: Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
#16Yes, the new font-family is now: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";
That answers my questions.
I thought I was on a phishing site!!
Re: Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
#17New font is awful
Re: Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
#18Where is the blog post explaining how and why they did it?
I am really interested in the reasoning behind the change, the insights, I bet they are really interesting.
Re: Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
#19Add this to 'Stylish'
body, .intgrs-page .main-content, .blog-content, .migration-wrapper, .migrate-owners-wrapper, .setup-wrapper, .showcase-page-title, .tooltipped::after { font-family: Helvetica, arial, nimbussansl, liberationsans, freesans, clean, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol" !important; }
.markdown-body { font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Segoe UI", Arial, freesans, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol" !important; }
body { font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 1.4 !important; }
.blob-code { line-height: 1.4 !important; }
Re: Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
#20I incredibly hate this move by GitHub. I am using Chrome's Styler extension to get back good old Helvetica. There should be an opt-out from this font stack at GitHub.
Screenshot: http://cloud.ahmda.ws/UHjO9GC