Default font should be changed to Vera Sans/Deja-Vu Sans/Verdana

[Mat Tomaszewski]

At the moment users see different fonts depending on the OS used - humanist (Vera Sans) on Ubuntu, neo-grotesque (Arial) on Mac or Windows. The global font definition should be changed to use humanist typeface only.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

The official CSS property is
    font-family: bitstream vera sans, dejavu sans, verdana, sans-serif;

Which might always be applied to body or *.

[Sidnei da Silva (sidnei)]

In landscape, we have a couple special headers which have serif fonts. What would be the recommended default for serif? (optionally, should any occurrence of serif in headers just be removed?)

Would this be a sane default?

    font-family: "Bitstream Vera Serif", "Dejavu Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;

[Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.)]

@ Sidnei

Could you please attach some screenshots of pages that include serif font?

Thanks!
m.

[Sidnei da Silva (sidnei)]

Here's one. It's probably the only one actually.

[Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.)]

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> Here's one. It's probably the only one actually.
>
> ** Attachment added: "screenshot_048.png"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32357901/screenshot_048.png
>
>

Thanks Sidnei, I think we can safely change it to sans-serif.

m.

[Thomas Herve (therve)]

For landscape:
 * there is still a reference to the old family in the frontpage.css
 * knowledge.css has a "sans-serif" mention which seems unnecessary

+1!

[Jamu Kakar (jkakar)]

For Landscape:

[1]

There are a few instances of 'font-family: sans-serif' in the
Salesforce stylesheets. I recommend you update them to use the
style you've used elsewhere:

font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Lucida Grande", "Verdana", sans-serif;

+1!

[Sidnei da Silva (sidnei)]

Merged to landscape trunk on r1372.

[Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.)]

The file browser and ajax popups seem not to respect the global setting.

For example:

.yui-pretty-overlay #yui-pretty-overlay-modal {
color:#484848;
font-family:sans-serif;

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Fixed in launchpad devel r9698.

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

It should be rolled out on the website as part of a big set of changes.

[Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.)]

Just to confirm, the font definitions are as per Curtis's comment:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/435356/comments/1

Please *do not* include any other fonts, like Lucida Grande or similar.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Fixed released in launchpad-project 3.1.10.

[Stuart Metcalfe (stuartmetcalfe)]

This was released in c-i-p with the new codebase.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I am marking the three launchpad wiki/wordpress sites as low because I beleve the font rules we are considering a change the the fonts and all projects will need to be updated.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I marked the remaining websites to wont fix because there is a new bug tracking the switch to the UbuntuBeta and Ubuntu fonts. See bug 620537.