{"thread":{"id":"54725","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 69","startedAt":"2020-11-27T21:21:05Z","lastAt":"2020-11-28T22:17:55Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Christian Couder","Felipe Contreras"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"410936","messageId":"CAP8UFD0xoqVh=1BweBqNOt4_9xg4GvDd7Jf5f5_5z4H+PCVt8g@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"54725","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 69","fromName":"Christian Couder","fromEmail":"christian.couder@gmail.com","sentAt":"2020-11-27T21:14:05Z","receivedAt":"2020-11-27T21:21:05Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"christian.couder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/208954?v=4"},"body":"Hi everyone,\n\nThe 69th edition of Git Rev News is now published:\n\n https://git.github.io/rev_news/2020/11/27/edition-69/\n\nThanks a lot to Philippe Blain, Semyon Kirnosenko, Tarun Batra, Philip\nOakley and Luca Milanesio who helped this month!\n\nEnjoy,\nChristian, Jakub, Markus and Kaartic.\n\nPS: An issue for the next edition is already opened and contributions\nare welcome:\n\nhttps://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/468\n"},{"id":"410944","messageId":"CAMP44s28HEUUvW8hs5PxrW5NwwDdpou-qsNm8nx3kMk_g0brNw@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"54725","inReplyTo":"CAP8UFD0xoqVh=1BweBqNOt4_9xg4GvDd7Jf5f5_5z4H+PCVt8g@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 69","fromName":"Felipe Contreras","fromEmail":"felipe.contreras@gmail.com","sentAt":"2020-11-28T08:27:10Z","receivedAt":"2020-11-28T22:16:57Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"felipe.contreras@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8358?v=4"},"body":"On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 3:24 PM Christian Couder\n wrote:\n> The 69th edition of Git Rev News is now published:\n>\n> https://git.github.io/rev_news/2020/11/27/edition-69/\n\nA nit-pick that has bothered me for years...\n\nThe font seems to be the same as git-scm.com, which is horrendous [1]\nin Linux. The style was clearly developed by people in the Git\nteaching industrial complex, who use macOS, not Linux.\n\nThe font-family list is Adelle, Georgia, Times New Roman. None of\nwhich are present in Linux systems (and the first one costs $540 USD).\nThen it falls back to \"serif\", which is already the default. So\nbasically on Linux there is no font. It has the same font as \"

Hello\nworld

\".\n\nI was told in university that the best fonts to read on screens are\nsans-serif (Arial), and in paper serif (Times New Roman). Which is why\nthe first thing I do in an HTML page is to add a style: body {\nfont-family: sans-serif; }. But somehow nobody in this lucrative\nindustry managed to do s/\\/sans-serif/ for Linux users.\n\nAnyway, enough ranting.\n\nAfter investigating all the different fonts specified in the list\n(present in macOS and Windows), I sent a fix [2] to pick similar fonts\nfor Linux. The best one is Roboto Slab [3], which looks very similar\nto Adelle, and it's free. Alternatively, DejaVu Serif [4] is a good\nsecond option present in many (most?) Linux systems, plus it's how it\nlooks on Windows with Georgia. And lastly, plain old (but not 90s old)\nsans-serif [5].\n\nAnd now it finally looks readable to me.\n\nCheers.\n\n[1] https://i.imgur.com/IGwT40T.png\n[2] https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/470\n[3] https://i.imgur.com/iD4rTv8.png\n[4] https://i.imgur.com/hVu3VNS.png\n[5] https://i.imgur.com/7KXVsQa.png\n\n-- \nFelipe Contreras\n"},{"id":"410952","messageId":"CAP8UFD32sjT_nttQrxknr=4EYUQLMebg=KhdGmMJ7j+YUmTjwg@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"54725","inReplyTo":"CAMP44s28HEUUvW8hs5PxrW5NwwDdpou-qsNm8nx3kMk_g0brNw@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 69","fromName":"Christian Couder","fromEmail":"christian.couder@gmail.com","sentAt":"2020-11-28T08:40:28Z","receivedAt":"2020-11-28T22:17:55Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"christian.couder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/208954?v=4"},"body":"On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 9:27 AM Felipe Contreras\n wrote:\n\n> A nit-pick that has bothered me for years...\n>\n> The font seems to be the same as git-scm.com, which is horrendous [1]\n> in Linux.\n\nI agree that the fonts haven't looked great to me either.\n\n> After investigating all the different fonts specified in the list\n> (present in macOS and Windows), I sent a fix [2] to pick similar fonts\n> for Linux.\n\nThanks for your pull request! I hope we can merge it soon.\n\n> The best one is Roboto Slab [3], which looks very similar\n> to Adelle, and it's free. Alternatively, DejaVu Serif [4] is a good\n> second option present in many (most?) Linux systems, plus it's how it\n> looks on Windows with Georgia. And lastly, plain old (but not 90s old)\n> sans-serif [5].\n\nThanks for the screenshots too. Yeah, it seems that the fonts you\nsuggest look better.\n\nBest,\nChristian.\n"}]}