Timeline for We are switching to system fonts on May 10, 2021
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| May 18, 2021 at 6:13 | comment | added | Ted Lyngmo | @AaronShekey It looks better in Ubuntu / Chrome again (I have a rather fresh installation with no extra font packs installed) - but not as good as it did before the extra spacing between lines was introduced. | |
| May 17, 2021 at 20:15 | comment | added | Ted Lyngmo | Example: Code in old posts, carefully crafted to not go outside of the visual area of the code blocks, now does. Having to scroll horizontally when reading code isn't nice. | |
| May 17, 2021 at 20:07 | comment | added | Ted Lyngmo | @AaronShekey Great! Can't wait to see how this looks in Ubuntu / Chrome. I just noticed that the font became very large in code blocks when using Windows / Chrome @ Stack Overflow. It should suit my bad eyes - but now very few characters fit horizontally. /Ted - Never happy :-) | |
| May 17, 2021 at 20:06 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod |
Ok, we're back to Liberation Sans and Liberation Mono on most Linux distros. But Linux is Linux, and who knows what font pack you installed (and forgot about) sometime in 2018. 😛
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| May 17, 2021 at 20:05 | history | edited | Aaron ShekeyStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 17, 2021 at 6:27 | comment | added | Ted Lyngmo | @AaronShekey I've now had a look and to me, the staging version is absolutely much better for code blocks. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 18:21 | comment | added | Marijn | @AaronShekey thanks for taking the feedback into account. I would be in favor of dropping the Ubuntu font. It is rather wide so the question list has a lot more line breaks now. And code is tiny. I guess it is more a UI font than a text font. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 17:40 | comment | added | Ted Lyngmo | @AaronShekey Thanks! I will try it at work where I have the unfortunate combo mentioned in the post. Can the same tool be used to actually use SO with my preferred settings (which is what my first post about spacing between lines was about)? | |
| May 12, 2021 at 17:26 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | @TedLyngmo Load up a page like this from prod (before), and this one from staging (after) | |
| May 12, 2021 at 17:18 | comment | added | Ted Lyngmo | @AaronShekey That sounds promising. I'm not sure how to use the deploy preview tool though. Can I use it to put a before and after rendering of the pages next to each other? | |
| May 12, 2021 at 17:08 | history | edited | Aaron ShekeyStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2021 at 17:08 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod |
Considering dropping Ubuntu as a font entirely in this Stacks PR. What'cha think?
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| May 12, 2021 at 16:16 | comment | added | terdon | It looks even worse on my Arch. Code is almost illegible. I don't understand why they wanted to break something that has been working perfectly well for years. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 15:30 | comment | added | Ted Lyngmo | @Marijn Thanks! What I feel is really odd is that SE made a special effort for Ubuntu and yet, using nothing but the default settings, it looks terrible. The combination of using Ubuntu 20.04 and Chrome on Stack Overflow surely can't be that unusual. I described my poor eyesight in my Request for a possibility to adjust the spacing between lines and this is a second blow in a very short time. I now get tired in my eyes really fast compared to just a few days ago... :-( | |
| May 12, 2021 at 9:33 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Active reading [<http://stackoverflow.com/legal/trademark-guidance> (the last section) ].
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| May 12, 2021 at 8:50 | comment | added | Marijn | FWIW a review of the font on designbombs.com/best-google-fonts-how-to-use-them: "Ubuntu is the default font used in the popular Linux-based operating system of the same name. This font is a great choice for titles and headings, especially for blogs and magazine. But it’s not a good choice for body text." (emphasis mine). | |
| May 11, 2021 at 6:10 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Even disregarding size, longer text is quite difficult to read in the new font. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 5:48 | history | undeleted | Ted Lyngmo | ||
| May 11, 2021 at 5:48 | history | edited | Ted Lyngmo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 11, 2021 at 5:33 | history | deleted | Ted Lyngmo | via Vote | |
| May 11, 2021 at 5:33 | history | answered | Ted Lyngmo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |