Use document font

[Cassidy James Blaede]

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+r104-0+pkg2~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-birdie-team-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-38.61-generic 3.2.37
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1+elementary3~precise1
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)

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Updated title to reflect description. I'm very +1 on using the system document font instead of the UI font.

[Contribucious (contribucious)]

+1 for me too. Also, it's more logical I think. ;-)
Many consecutive tweets can be considered as "a document", like reading a .doc.
So, a suitable font adapted to read a lot is logical I would say.

I like to use a font-size of 10 for "default font", but 9 for "document font".
Therefore, here, font in Birdie looks too big IMHO (10 used rather than 9 so), especially the Name of the person who tweeted (as always a little bit more large than the tweet itself regarding the font-size).

Also, we often don't use the same font-family for document font (more suitable for the long read) than the rest.