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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4683 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 1 of 3 05 April 2014 at 3:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I found this article interesting: Wikipedia To Redesign Across More Than 32 Million Pages
Apparently there is an issue finding an open-source font that renders correctly for all the world's languages, as evidenced by this graphic: 
The new format Wikipedia will use is Georgia for headers, and Helvetica or Arial for body copy. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4462 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 2 of 3 05 April 2014 at 10:55am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't like these fonts.
They look too corporate/business-like to me. My browser is set to: Garamond Premier Pro (for all Latin-based fonts, including Vietnamese), Adobe Devanagari (for Hindi), TB Mincho (for Japanese), so I won't be able to see these changes anyway. Edited by Medulin on 05 April 2014 at 10:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5114 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 3 of 3 06 April 2014 at 7:10am | IP Logged | ||
However, I can live with most of the Wikipedia styles. The only customization that I use is a simple Firefox GreaseMonkey script that changes the default Arabic font to Sakkal Majalla and increases the font size of Arabic text to 150%. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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