Timeline for We are switching to system fonts on May 10, 2021
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| May 17, 2021 at 20:08 | history | edited | Aaron ShekeyStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2021 at 18:18 | comment | added | Zanna | Yeah the site looks wonderful in Ubuntu font to me 👌 Users of other Linuxes seem to be getting old clunky fonts - maybe put something in the stack for them after Ubuntu font? | |
| May 12, 2021 at 18:08 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @AaronShekey Am I correct that dropping the Ubuntu font and dropping Ubuntu Mono are separate solutions, intended to fix separate problems? They're different fonts, after all, and personally I like the Ubuntu font as it appears on Ask Ubuntu (but I dislike Ubuntu Mono there, for the reasons Zanna described). I'm not objecting to dropping the Ubuntu font if it's causing problems for a lot of people, but dropping both fonts, if it's due to a problem specific to Ubuntu Mono, wouldn't make much sense to me. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 17:30 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | Thank you, @Zanna, I really appreciate it. It's really tough balancing what I think is the right path forward for our front-end and the opinions of users who care deeply about the site. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 17:28 | comment | added | Zanna | @AaronShekey Just wanna say I have massive respect for the patience you have shown on this entire page. I love the initiative to update the fonts. You are doing an awesome job. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 17:12 | history | edited | Aaron ShekeyStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2021 at 17:12 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod |
Considering dropping Ubuntu as a font entirely in this Stacks pull request. There isn't a clean way of getting around Ubuntu Mono being so small 😞
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| May 11, 2021 at 19:49 | comment | added | wjandrea |
@Zanna I didn't want the hassle of installing the font, so I ended up installing this userscript to use monospace instead of ui-monospace etc. Thanks!
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| May 11, 2021 at 7:15 | history | edited | Zanna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 11, 2021 at 6:45 | history | edited | Zanna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 11, 2021 at 2:51 | history | edited | Zanna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 11, 2021 at 2:35 | history | edited | Zanna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 11, 2021 at 2:28 | comment | added | Zanna | @wjandrea Oh sorry... I think the font was only released in 2019, so that's not a big surprise. I'm on 20.04. Should be easy enough to get it from GitHub. | |
| May 10, 2021 at 21:19 | comment | added | wjandrea | Is Cascadia not available on 18.04? That package name doesn't exist for Bionic. | |
| May 10, 2021 at 18:12 | history | edited | Zanna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10, 2021 at 17:44 | comment | added | Zanna | @joelostblom yeah that would be slightly better, +1 | |
| May 10, 2021 at 17:43 | comment | added | joelostblom | Another solution is to increase the size of Ubuntu Mono on SE. I posted another answer around the same time with that suggestion and a couple of links talking about how Ubuntu Mono is known to be ~2 points smaller than many other fonts meta.stackexchange.com/a/364275/338301 | |
| May 10, 2021 at 17:36 | history | edited | Zanna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
it's late and I can't type
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| May 10, 2021 at 17:29 | history | answered | Zanna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |