GitHub now uses native fonts (San Francisco in macOS and Segoe UI in Windows)

Posted by zuck9 on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:13PM
from the github.com dept.

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Re:GitHub now uses native fonts (San Francisco in macOS and ... by barakm on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:28PM (#12073138)

Fix it with stylish, if you don't like it: https://twitter.com/barakmich/status/752568316485627908

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Re:GitHub now uses native fonts (San Francisco in macOS and ... by wassago on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:20PM (#12073085)

To be more precise, on macOS it's using system fonts (`-apple-system` - not necessarily San Francisco if set otherwise or on older versions of the OS).

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Re:GitHub now uses native fonts (San Francisco in macOS and ... by nilved on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:22PM (#12073106)

They could be A/B testing this. I'm still served Helvetica.

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Re:GitHub now uses native fonts (San Francisco in macOS and ... by huangc10 on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:16PM (#12073548)

I like it in the readme because it looks cleaner and more readable but for some reason I don't like it anywhere else (file names, etc.). I'm on a Mac.

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Re:GitHub now uses native fonts (San Francisco in macOS and ... by percept on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:16PM (#12073056)

Much nicer--for a while there it seemed like they were headed for 2005 with the typeface, gradients, and other visual elements.

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Re:GitHub now uses native fonts (San Francisco in macOS and ... by reecehart on Monday July 11, 2016 @07:50PM (#12075686)

Which font depends on whether you're logged in (which is weird).

Why not use the default browser font?

In any case, an unwelcomed change for me.

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Re:GitHub now uses native fonts (San Francisco in macOS and ... by moosingin3space on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:19PM (#12073574)

My work machine (Ubuntu 14.04.4) now shows Ubuntu, which is a little less jarring when looking at different places on screen (I use Ubuntu Mono in the terminal), and my home laptop (Fedora 23) now uses Arimo (since I have ChromeOS fonts configured). Nice touch.

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Re:GitHub now uses native fonts (San Francisco in macOS and ... by wfunction on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:21PM (#12073092)

Tahoma still looks more natural to me inside applications, while Segoe UI looks better to me in the OS itself.

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Re:GitHub now uses native fonts (San Francisco in macOS and ... by drtz on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:43PM (#12073779)

No, Sir, I do not like it.

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