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Last modified 12 months ago

#50723 closed enhancement (fixed)

Twenty Twenty: Please replace Hoefler text with Noto Serif as default font

Reported by: nmschaller's profile nmschaller Owned by: sergeybiryukov's profile SergeyBiryukov
Milestone: 6.0 Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 5.4.2
Component: Bundled Theme Keywords: has-patch needs-testing
Focuses: css Cc:

Description

Hi Twenty Twenty theme developers,

Thank you for developing this excellent theme.

Working from a Chromebook now, I noticed that the Hoefler Text font for body text is displayed thin and badly rendered.

First, I checked the Chrome browser settings you recommended. That didn’t help.

Then I realized that it is not Hoefler Text that is displayed, but a fallback font, Garamond as it seems.

Reading about different issues with Hoefler Text, from spacing to flower power, I suggest that you define Noto Serif as the default font for frontend content and backend editing.

Alternatively, please redefine the fallback font as Noto Serif instead of Garamond, or before Garamond.

Noto Serif is displayed well on a Chromebook and is very similar to Hoefler text, both in look and feel, and in size. Noto Serif is also the fallback font for Android devices.

Thanks a lot.

Regards

Nicole

Attachments (2)

Screenshot 2020-07-21 at 3.44.33 PM.png (513.0 KB) - added by nmschaller 4 years ago.
Screenshot of fallback font Garamond on Chromebook in Chrome browser
50723.patch (4.4 KB) - added by sabernhardt 3 years ago.
adding Noto Serif: after Hoefler Text and before Garamond

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Change History (6)

@nmschaller
4 years ago

Screenshot of fallback font Garamond on Chromebook in Chrome browser

@sabernhardt
3 years ago

adding Noto Serif: after Hoefler Text and before Garamond

#1 @sabernhardt
3 years ago

  • Focuses css added
  • Keywords has-patch needs-testing added

Hoefler Text probably should remain the preferred font, but adding Noto Serif as a fallback before Garamond seems reasonable.

#2 @SergeyBiryukov
2 years ago

  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 6.0

#3 @SergeyBiryukov
2 years ago

  • Owner set to SergeyBiryukov
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

In 52661:

Twenty Twenty: Add Noto Serif as a fallback font before Garamond.

This aims to provide better experience on Chromebooks. Noto Serif is also the fallback font for Android devices.

Follow-up to [46271].

Props sabernhardt, nmschaller.
Fixes #50723.

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core by sabernhardt. View the logs.


12 months ago

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