He demonstrates how Bootstrap’s website is rendered with an old bitmap font: Xie (2017) reports that the Simplified Chinese versions of Windows 7 or later render the font not with Segoe UI but with the Latin glyphs from a Chinese font. Masa Kudamatsu linked here has written one thing wrong: Reasons such as "users cannot change their system font" should not be accepted as a reason to not use system-ui as it is the responsibility for the OS to provide methods to change the system font, not the burden of website developers.īroken vertical font alignment on Fedora #1209 might be fixed by placing system-ui in first place as the line height in CSS is based on the first font in the fallback list that return a font., which system-ui will match in most platform now. If a user doesn't like what the display font is given, then it should be their own responsibility to fix it since the font will be chosen based on their OS, as system-ui had completed its own intended action which is the correct response. Where browser/system provided font supersede specified font. So what are the suitable suggestion? Quoting from, the best font stack is:įont-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", Oxygen, Cantarell, sans-serif It should also be noted that in Simplified Chinese Windows 8/10, all characters including Latin characters are displayed with Microsoft YaHei UI, not Segoe UI overriding Segoe UI in GitHub is a different behaviour compared to Windows 8/10. Thus, Primer should use the system font provided to Simplified Chinese users (in this case, SimSun) even though it looks ugly as it is the font chosen by user (although involuntary).īesides, even considering Windows 8/10 of Microsoft YaHei UI, it is not suitable to pair Microsoft YaHei UI with Segoe UI as Segoe UI is a tad bit thinner than Microsoft YaHei UI even though Segoe UI has more weights than Microsoft YaHei UI.Simplified Chinese users that use Windows 7/Vista or older (mainly chose to use Classic theme themselves) will see SimSun (as shown in the site) as their OS font Windows 8/10 will use Microsoft YaHei UI.Whatever font is used on a user's OS should be used on GitHub for a streamlined experience.So I would say yes.Īssuming you agree that "if a user had set their system font to a serif font, GitHub should use the serif font too", the following will stand true: Why prioritise system-ui over ui-sans-serif? If the system is using, say, a serif font as the system font, would Primer really want to use that?ĪFAIK, Primer tries to stay as close to the default system font as possible. According to the reply in #1209 (comment): If Primer aims to replicate system display font in the browser, they should use system-ui as the first font in the first place the problem described by in is actually a non-issue.
I had a little discussion with some Simplified Chinese users and one has provided an insight as follow:
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