# [ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 69 3 messages from 2020-11-27 to 2020-11-28. Participants: Christian Couder, Felipe Contreras. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/54725 ## Christian Couder, 2020-11-27 21:14 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 69 Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAP8UFD0xoqVh%3D1BweBqNOt4_9xg4GvDd7Jf5f5_5z4H%2BPCVt8g%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi everyone, The 69th edition of Git Rev News is now published: https://git.github.io/rev_news/2020/11/27/edition-69/ Thanks a lot to Philippe Blain, Semyon Kirnosenko, Tarun Batra, Philip Oakley and Luca Milanesio who helped this month! Enjoy, Christian, Jakub, Markus and Kaartic. PS: An issue for the next edition is already opened and contributions are welcome: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/468 ``` ## Felipe Contreras, 2020-11-28 08:27 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 69 Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAMP44s28HEUUvW8hs5PxrW5NwwDdpou-qsNm8nx3kMk_g0brNw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 3:24 PM Christian Couder wrote: > The 69th edition of Git Rev News is now published: > > https://git.github.io/rev_news/2020/11/27/edition-69/ A nit-pick that has bothered me for years... The font seems to be the same as git-scm.com, which is horrendous [1] in Linux. The style was clearly developed by people in the Git teaching industrial complex, who use macOS, not Linux. The font-family list is Adelle, Georgia, Times New Roman. None of which are present in Linux systems (and the first one costs $540 USD). Then it falls back to "serif", which is already the default. So basically on Linux there is no font. It has the same font as "

Hello world

". I was told in university that the best fonts to read on screens are sans-serif (Arial), and in paper serif (Times New Roman). Which is why the first thing I do in an HTML page is to add a style: body { font-family: sans-serif; }. But somehow nobody in this lucrative industry managed to do s/\/sans-serif/ for Linux users. Anyway, enough ranting. After investigating all the different fonts specified in the list (present in macOS and Windows), I sent a fix [2] to pick similar fonts for Linux. The best one is Roboto Slab [3], which looks very similar to Adelle, and it's free. Alternatively, DejaVu Serif [4] is a good second option present in many (most?) Linux systems, plus it's how it looks on Windows with Georgia. And lastly, plain old (but not 90s old) sans-serif [5]. And now it finally looks readable to me. Cheers. [1] https://i.imgur.com/IGwT40T.png [2] https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/470 [3] https://i.imgur.com/iD4rTv8.png [4] https://i.imgur.com/hVu3VNS.png [5] https://i.imgur.com/7KXVsQa.png -- Felipe Contreras ``` ## Christian Couder, 2020-11-28 08:40 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 69 Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAP8UFD32sjT_nttQrxknr%3D4EYUQLMebg%3DKhdGmMJ7j%2BYUmTjwg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 9:27 AM Felipe Contreras wrote: > A nit-pick that has bothered me for years... > > The font seems to be the same as git-scm.com, which is horrendous [1] > in Linux. I agree that the fonts haven't looked great to me either. > After investigating all the different fonts specified in the list > (present in macOS and Windows), I sent a fix [2] to pick similar fonts > for Linux. Thanks for your pull request! I hope we can merge it soon. > The best one is Roboto Slab [3], which looks very similar > to Adelle, and it's free. Alternatively, DejaVu Serif [4] is a good > second option present in many (most?) Linux systems, plus it's how it > looks on Windows with Georgia. And lastly, plain old (but not 90s old) > sans-serif [5]. Thanks for the screenshots too. Yeah, it seems that the fonts you suggest look better. Best, Christian. ```