GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why?

Posted by Diastro on Monday August 04, 2014 @10:01PM
from the self-post dept.

Im not to sure why but github is now using Helvetica Neue. Am I the only only that find this change a bit weird.

Example : https://github.com/Diastro/Zeek

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Re:GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why? by bengunnink on Monday August 04, 2014 @10:13PM (#8135203)

Preferred Sans-Serif font of the guys who did Bootstrap, who are now working for Github (or at least Mark Dotto is).

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Re:GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why? by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @05:48AM (#8136178)

Only for Markdown text apparently:

.markdown-body: "Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,freesans,sans-serif

body: Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif,"Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol"

You don't explain why you think it's weird though? I'd imagine they assume it's a well tuned font for the platforms it's found on.

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Re:GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why? by dreamdu5t on Thursday August 07, 2014 @05:33PM (#8150243)

It wasn't just the font. They removed the borders around code blocks, added padding, made the background color lighter, changed the font-size to 16px from 15px and changed the spacing of lists.

Personally, I don't like it at all.

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Re:GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why? by bnycum on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @10:27AM (#8137039)

Just a guess, Helvetica Neue is the new system font of Yosemite.

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Re:GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why? by elwell on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @10:47AM (#8137135)

What was the old font?

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Re:GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why? by coppolaemilio on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @07:47AM (#8136409)

looks so much better! the other font was ultra-big and bold.

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