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Re: GitHub.com font changed

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Post by 2bitencryption »

rvern wrote: post #7

One of the most useful options in Firefox is the checkbox "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"[1], also available as browser.display.use_document_fonts in about:config. When this is unchecked, Firefox will ignore all fonts specified by web pages and just use the much-more-likely-to-be-reasonable choice of default font you have made; and you can then disable web fonts, which will mak…

But that's my favorite part of mobile browsing!

Load the page, start reading an article, scrolling as you read. Then the CSS styling kicks in, knocking you back to the top of the page, or worse -- somewhere else entirely, who knows where. So you take some time to figure out where you left off and continue reading again.

But then the font loads. And that shifts everything again. And now you're in the middle of the fourth paragraph when before you were reading the third.

Re: GitHub.com font changed

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Post by toomanybeersies »

r24y wrote: post #2

Viewing it on OS X, it looks like they're using the San Francisco font. A little jarring if you're used to seeing the old typeface 20+ times/day, but it looks good. Fortunately, the transition seems to have gone a bit better than Medium's: https://medium.com/design/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596f#.j5z5g5g...

You would think that a site as large as Medium would think of actually testing their site on Windows before deploying.

Re: GitHub.com font changed

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Post by mayhew »

gnuvince wrote: post #14

Goddamn, I hate Roboto, it is way too fat by default.

The Bold Roboto [1] just looks awful on my machine. Arial [2] looked much better, and if they want to use the system font, Ubuntu [3] also looks much better.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/zfThWXP.png

[2] http://i.imgur.com/qngKbGq.png

[3] http://i.imgur.com/77vDhCd.png

Re: GitHub.com font changed

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Post by armabiz »

Firefox hack:

There is an extension to override/inject CSS for specific domains: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

Old styles can be grabbed from the: https://github.com/rreusser/the-old-github-font/blob/master/...

After applying the following config: http://i.imgur.com/hGffN8I.png GitHub look is back to normal.

Re: GitHub.com font changed

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Post by err4nt »

ori_b wrote: post #19
flukus wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happens when sites are using font's for images?

Then it breaks. I can deal with that -- there aren't very many sites that decide to abuse fonts that way, in any case. And who knows, maybe one day SVG will actually reliably render correctly in browsers, and people will use images when they want to display images

The problem isnt so much SVG rendering, its that you can grab an icon font with 400 icons that look great, its easy to add them to places beside text, like in menus or on buttons.

You can use SVG, but there is no CDN-hosted SVG sprite with 400 icons to replace things like FontAwesome or Ionicons, so you would have to find all the SVGs you wanted. Then you have the challenge of getting them the right size and position beside text in very tight spaces.

Re: GitHub.com font changed

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Post by Zverik »

nathancahill wrote: post #10

Anyone know what it was previously? I'm writing a user stylesheet to change it back.

font-family: Helvetica, arial, nimbussansl, liberationsans, freesans, clean, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";

font-size: 13px;

line-height: 1.4;

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