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I wonder, does Outlook 2019 have the "system" font glitch from Win 3.xx? I think I'll be sending out all my HTML emails in either System or Courier from now on

by Endy 7y ago

I wonder, does Outlook 2019 have the "system" font glitch from Win 3.xx? I think I'll be sending out all my HTML emails in either System or Courier from now on; just to pull peoples' legs.

wlesieutre 7y ago
What’s the glitch? Microsoft has a font named System and if you ask for it you get it?
- benj111 7y ago
  I guess they're talking about this. https://medium.design/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596f#.v0lk6vj4x https://medium.design/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596f#.v0lk6vj4x
  - wlesieutre 7y ago
    Right, so not really a "glitch" >Dormant, that is, unless someone asked for it with CSS. Which we, inadvertently, did. It boggles my mind that not once did someone load up the "Medium 2.0" redesign on a Windows computer before launching it. Or even render it out from browsershots. Is cross platform browser behavior consistent enough that people don't do this anymore? And IE/Edge testing was just not on the list? For reference if anyone wants to use the OS's font like this, "-apple-system" now has an unprefixed implementation as "system-ui" avoid the Windows font collision. Chrome/Safari support it, Edge will once they're running the Chrome engine, but Firefox doesn't yet.
    - benj111 7y ago
      "It boggles my mind that not once did someone load up the "Medium 2.0" redesign on a Windows computer" It says in the article that it was only certain OS, browser combinations. Don't know how unusual the combination was though.
      - wlesieutre 7y ago
        Ah you're right, I'd missed that. I wonder what versions.