Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?

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	Did GitHub just change its default font family to system defaults?
	62 points by jasalo 3634 days ago

14 comments

BafS 3634 days ago

Yes, the new font-family is now:

  -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";

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Ezhik 3634 days ago

If I'm running OS X pre-El Capitan, will `-apple-system` and `BlinkMacSystemFont` resolve to Helvetica, or will I end up seeing Roboto and Segoe UI if I have either installed?

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doctrine 3634 days ago

You will end up seeing Segoe UI, if that isn't installed you'll see Roboto, if that isn't installed you'll see Helvetica and so on.

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Ezhik 3634 days ago

Actually, now that I can try this on my machine, it does show Helvetica.

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max_ 3633 days ago

That answers my questions.

I thought I was on a phishing site!!

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fulafel 3634 days ago

System default would be leaving the font family unspecified, no?

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0x54MUR41 3634 days ago

I think, they did. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Mozilla Firefox. The font size has a big size than the previous one.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073109

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anishathalye 3634 days ago

If you don't like it, you can fix it by using this: https://github.com/rreusser/the-old-github-font

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mrahmadawais 3623 days ago

I incredibly hate this move by GitHub. I am using Chrome's Styler extension to get back good old Helvetica. There should be an opt-out from this font stack at GitHub.

Screenshot: http://cloud.ahmda.ws/UHjO9GC

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dannymichel 3628 days ago

Add this to 'Stylish'

body, .intgrs-page .main-content, .blog-content, .migration-wrapper, .migrate-owners-wrapper, .setup-wrapper, .showcase-page-title, .tooltipped::after { font-family: Helvetica, arial, nimbussansl, liberationsans, freesans, clean, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol" !important; }

.markdown-body { font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Segoe UI", Arial, freesans, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol" !important; }

body { font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 1.4 !important; }

.blob-code { line-height: 1.4 !important; }

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kkoppenhaver 3634 days ago

Seems like it.

https://twitter.com/mdo/status/752561058011754496

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toufique 3634 days ago

Looks like it. I was thrown off too.

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fo747 3634 days ago

I wonder if they looked at the difference in markdown look on OSX+Chrome. Bold is completely broken, see screenshots comparison here (tweeted at Github): https://twitter.com/MrOlovsson/status/752843094765236224

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xfalcox 3634 days ago

Noticed this earlier today. It's using Ubuntu on Gnome Ubuntu 16.04 with Chrome.

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ryan-allen 3632 days ago

Where is the blog post explaining how and why they did it?

I am really interested in the reasoning behind the change, the insights, I bet they are really interesting.

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holyketzer 3632 days ago

New font is awful

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WorldMaker 3634 days ago