Twenty Twenty: Conditional loading of language/locale specific css and php files

[ianbelanger]

First reported on GitHub by @nukaga

​https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwenty/issues/970

In the current site design, the title is too large in Japanese and Chinese.
The center alignment is also extraordinary.

​https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwenty/issues/118#issuecomment-541292567
​https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwenty/issues/118#issuecomment-538964579

Solution
Is it possible to separate the title and body CSS in several languages?

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to ianbelanger:

Is it possible to separate the title and body CSS in several languages?

It is possible, see the Typography section​ in Twenty Seventeen for example.

It is also possible to disable specific Google fonts for specific locales, see twentyseventeen_fonts_url()​ for example.

However, we should be careful not to create excessively verbose CSS, see #47925 and #45731 for Twenty Nineteen.

[karmatosed]

Whilst it does seem that you can split the CSS my recommendation would be that we do not do this in an older default theme. I would suggest the fact that this hasn't had a patch yet also reflects the nature of it being one area could have further issues if explored, for example on disabling specific fonts.

As for my recommendation on where this ticket goes.

• I would recommend to 'close' this with a 'won't fix'.
• If someone does come up with a passive patch before closing that doesn't cause issues then absolutely we could consider adding.

I am basing this recommendation on the following:

• We are focusing on bugs specifically for older default themes, this isn't a bug specifically just overly large text. It's not pretty but not a bug.
• It could bring in more complications and issues than fix if create verbose CSS at this stage.

[karmatosed]

I am going to now close this, we can always have a new ticket if needed. Thanks everyone.