Changeset 50155

Timestamp:

02/02/2021 06:35:27 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

SergeyBiryukov

Message:

Block Editor: Drop Noto Serif in favor of system fonts.

This aims to improve privacy and performance of the editor.

Follow-up to [37361].

Props Joen, hellofromTonya, garrett-eclipse, aristath, noisysocks, hedgefield, pento, sabernhardt, joyously, yannkozon.
Fixes #46169.

Location:

trunk/src

Files:

• wp-admin/edit-form-blocks.php (modified) (1 diff)
• wp-includes/script-loader.php (modified) (3 diffs)

trunk/src/wp-admin/edit-form-blocks.php

@@ -194 +194 @@
 );
 
-/* translators: Use this to specify the CSS font family for the default font. */
-$locale_font_family = esc_html_x( 'Noto Serif', 'CSS Font Family for Editor Font' );
+$locale_font_family = '-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif';
 $styles[]           = array(
     'css' => "body { font-family: '$locale_font_family' }",

trunk/src/wp-includes/script-loader.php

@@ -1475 +1475 @@
     $styles->add( 'open-sans', $open_sans_font_url ); // No longer used in core as of 4.6.
 
-    // Packages styles.
+    // Noto Serif is no longer used by core, but may be relied upon by themes and plugins.
     $fonts_url = '';
 
@@ -1487 +1487 @@
         $fonts_url = 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=' . urlencode( $font_family );
     }
-    $styles->add( 'wp-editor-font', $fonts_url );
+    $styles->add( 'wp-editor-font', $fonts_url ); // No longer used in core as of 5.7.
 
     $styles->add( 'wp-block-library-theme', "/wp-includes/css/dist/block-library/theme$suffix.css" );
@@ -1504 +1504 @@
 
     $package_styles = array(
-        'block-editor'         => array(
-            'wp-components',
-            'wp-editor-font',
-        ),
+        'block-editor'         => array( 'wp-components' ),
         'block-library'        => array(),
         'block-directory'      => array(),