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StackOverflow selected the following font stack [1] after holding an open discussion [2]. Note that their initial proposal included system-ui which they later r
by divbzero 4y ago
StackOverflow selected the following font stack [1] after holding an open discussion [2]. Note that their initial proposal included system-ui which they later removed due to concerns about OS and language compatibility.
@ff-sans:
-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, // San Francisco on macOS and iOS
"Segoe UI", // Windows
"Liberation Sans", // Linux
sans-serif; // The final fallback for rendering in sans-serif.
@ff-serif: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
@ff-mono:
ui-monospace, // San Francisco Mono on macOS and iOS
"Cascadia Mono", "Segoe UI Mono", // Newer Windows monospace fonts that are optionally installed. Most likely to be rendered in Consolas
"Liberation Mono", // Linux
Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, // A few sensible system font choices
monospace; // The final fallback for rendering in monospace.
[1]: https://github.com/StackExchange/Stacks/pull/642/files https://github.com/StackExchange/Stacks/pull/642/files
[2]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/364048/we-are-switching-to-system-fonts-on-may-10-2021 https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/364048/we-are-switc...
- xdennis 4y agoThat's their preferential font stack, not a system font stack. It's mostly Helvetica based: San Francisco is the Apple knock off of Helvetica and Liberation Sans is a knock off of Arial which is a knock off of Helvetica. Only Segoe UI isn't Helvetica.
- JonathonW 4y agoPut another way, it’s system fonts everywhere except Linux. (And Android’s just ignored; I guess it just catches the fallback ‘sans-serif’?)
- RealStickman_ 4y agoI think Liberation Sans is pretty common on linux, at least for the systems I know.
- ciupicri 4y agoBy the way Fedora 36 changed the default fonts for various languages to Noto [1]. [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultToNotoFonts https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultToNotoFonts
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