No good global UI font definition
Bug #389568 reported by
Mat Tomaszewski
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #435356: Default font should be changed to Vera Sans/Deja-Vu Sans/Verdana.
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Bug Description
In LP's CSS there's no good, cross-OS font definition. CSS only states "sans-serif", which results in different font being displayed depending on the OS used (Vera Sans for Ubuntu, Arial for Mac OS).
Changed in launchpad: | |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Albisetti (beuno) |
affects: | launchpad → launchpad-foundations |
Changed in launchpad-foundations: | |
assignee: | Martin Albisetti (beuno) → Curtis Hovey (sinzui) |
Changed in launchpad: | |
assignee: | Curtis Hovey (sinzui) → nobody |
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"sans-serif" *is* a good, cross-OS font definition: it lets the browser, and in some browsers (such as Firefox) the user, choose an appropriate sans-serif typeface for that OS.
A "different font being displayed depending on the OS used" is a natural consequence of Launchpad being a Web site: there is no single font that is installed by default in all three of Windows, Ubuntu, and Mac OS X. The only way to achieve a single font on all OSes would be to specify a font to be downloaded; but that would work only in Firefox 3.5+ and Safari 3.2+ and browsers of similar recency, and would achieve little except increasing download time and making pages with non-Latin characters (such as <https:/ /answers. launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +question/ 74838> for example) look worse because they would be mixing and matching more fonts than usual to show all the characters.
"sans-serif" does not result in Arial on Mac OS X; in both Safari and Firefox, it results in Helvetica. It does result in Arial on Windows, though, so I suggest making a surgical strike to use a nicer typeface on Windows without changing the typeface on Ubuntu or Mac OS X:
font-family: "Candara", sans-serif;