Timeline for We are switching to system fonts on May 10, 2021
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| May 19, 2021 at 15:27 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Well yes, but I'm asking about the future - since being able to use a webfont means a consistent look across OSes. Right now? Yeah, there's a lot covering that. | |
| May 19, 2021 at 15:15 | comment | added | Kevin B | @JourneymanGeek and this one isn't, at certain resolutions. | |
| May 19, 2021 at 8:36 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Legible means readable fwiw. | |
| May 19, 2021 at 8:09 | comment | added | Sinatr | @AaronShekey, "we can budget for a single effective, legible, variable weight typeface" - you forgot the most important feature of font - it has to be readable. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 3:56 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | I think of our front end as a budget. Right now, much of our CSS could be deleted and replaced by the fixed-size Stacks library. Much of our JS could be consolidated with far less duplication. It will require sustained effort and we’re staffing a front-end team with Stacks at the center. I hope someday we can budget for a single effective, legible, variable weight typeface that doesn’t trash performance. I think the web will evolve while we pay down technical debt. The biggest hurdle is most the tricks to make web fonts performant tend to break down at our scale. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 3:17 | history | answered | Journeyman GeekMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |