Opened 5 years ago
Closed 18 months ago
#47874 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Support for Typography Customization
Reported by: | ramizmanked | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | normal | Version: | 5.2.2 |
Component: | Bundled Theme | Keywords: | |
Focuses: | template | Cc: |
Description
Nowadays, Typography settings are one of the basic requirements of almost every theme.
Issue: As of Twenty Nineteen, admin is unable to customize some typography items(h1, h2, p, etc.) styles from backend.
Solution: Since we have rich set of customizer controls now, can we think of providing such options to customize theme typography straight from the Theme Customizer section?
Change History (8)
#1
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5 years ago
- Summary changed from Support for Headings customization to Support for Typography Customization
#4
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5 years ago
Thanks @joyously for your inputs.
I am talking about adding Typography options in upcoming releases of WordPress Themes (may be Twenty Twenty). Though it would be theme specific, it won't conflict with any other themes installed in the WordPress setup. This will allow non-technical users to set basic typography settings from backend itself without requiring any CSS knowledge.
My initial thought was, why should we force user to set basic typography settings using CSS when we have rich set of customizer controls to provide such functionalities from backend.
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #accessibility by afercia. View the logs.
5 years ago
#7
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5 years ago
- Focuses accessibility administration removed
Discussed this ticket during last week's accessibility bug-scrub on Slack (requires registration).
The prevalent opinion in the accessibility team is that, while the ability to customize the font type and some advanced font metrics would help general readability and specific reading impairments like dyslexia, this feature shouldn't be in core and sounds more like plugin or theme territory.
It was also noted that there are already plugins that provide the ability to choose Google fonts in the customizer and customize other font features.
Maybe it would be nice to consider this feature for a bundled theme (maybe Twenty Twenty?) but it doesn't appear to be a responsibility of WordPress core accessibility. Removing the accessibility focus, will leave the final word to the Bundled Theme team :)
#8
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18 months ago
- Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from assigned to closed
With the site editor, you could edit the typography of individual headings in Twenty Twenty-Two or Twenty Twenty-Three.
That does not fit the request exactly, so I'll close as "won't fix" even though "fixed" could be appropriate.
Doing this would conflict with a lot of theme options. And if it's a core option, the theme would have to work around it.
This does not belong in core. It's what themes are for.