Use document font
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Birdie |
Triaged
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Currently, it looks like Birdie uses the default platform UI font. On elementary, this is Droid Sans. While this is fine for normal UI elements (buttons, menus, etc.) with shorter text, it's not the best for longer messages like tweets. Additionally, it doesn't have multiple weights to play with nor does it have a true italic.
Instead, we should either use the platform ocument font (Open Sans on elementary), or something a little prettier. The new Twitter app on Android actually uses a much lighter weight typeface which looks super slick, so perhaps we could look into that.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: birdie 0.1+r104-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: birdie
Date: Wed Apr 3 23:05:29 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/birdie
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Daily amd64 (20130226)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: birdie
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in birdie: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in birdie: | |
milestone: | none → 0.3 |
Updated title to reflect description. I'm very +1 on using the system document font instead of the UI font.