System Font Change - Poll

[robn]

Originally Posted by gareth

Thanks Rob that's interesting. I would suggest that Roboto doesn't work well on large screens at small sizes (same with source sans pro for me really) and would plead for Roboto to appear after Droid Sans if that wouldn't set a cat amongst the pigeons

Roboto has to have higher priority than Droid Sans, because older Android devices only have Droid, but newer ones have both. If Roboto was after, it would never get selected.

[gareth]

Why not allow users to choose from a selection of web fonts? Impact on speed maybe... (not a font suggestion!)... what's wrong with fixedsys anyway? It looks nice on bank statements

[gareth]

Are you able to offer whatever it was you used before, or was that a different list of local fonts?

[horatio8]

I'm not sure how to vote because I think it looks really good on my Mac, but terrible on the Windows machine I have to use at work. On Windows 7 it's too lightweight and harder to read.

[Clive T]

Originally Posted by gareth

New font looks extremely wishy-washy on Ubuntu/Chromium, Firefox slightly less so, but only slightly.

It also seems to be a lighter shade of grey (and smaller font size?) which makes reading on the web interface difficult for me.

Please would you undo this change or provide the old font as an option somehow?

Thanks
Gareth

I agree. It's v difficult to read here.

[horatio8]

Switching to the San Francisco system font on my 5k iMac is a very nice option. I would vote a strong thumbs up for the font change on MacOS, but I still think it is too lightweight and hard to read on Windows.

[gareth]

FWIW I think if you use the web interface on a phone where you're closer to the screen than with a laptop, desktop or tablet, it might look OK, but on anything else, it seems to me that Source Sans Pro just doesn't aid readability at small sizes. Its capitals don't seem too distinctively higher than lower-case letters, and its ascenders and descenders are a bit minimalist, so in the middle of a word, for example, "y" and "v" can look similar from a distance. The kerning also seems to be very close - which in light grey makes for a difficult reading experience in which you (or I at least) have to concentrate on deciphering the text before the meaning of what I'm reading.

Substituting this for "system font" (which, as robn has explained, on a non-phone or tablet device really seems to mean one of several you might have installed, rather than one actually used as your system font) is better... I find Roboto bearable but Ubuntu just as bad - nothing seems to be as clearly legible as whatever was used until recently - I really would like that option back

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[CyberDyne]

Personally. I like it on Firefox, but I'm finding it's too small on the iOS (iPhone) App. and it seems much more difficult to read from the same distance I've always used my phone.

[sflorack]

A better poll would have been "Which did you prefer? Old font, new font". I don't dislike the new font, but I prefer the old font.

[FredOnline]

Originally Posted by sflorack

A better poll would have been "Which did you prefer? Old font, new font"

Feel free to set up your own poll.

[rnkn]

Originally Posted by CyberDyne

Personally. I like it on Firefox, but I'm finding it's too small on the iOS (iPhone) App. and it seems much more difficult to read from the same distance I've always used my phone.

Huh? The new fonts are like 150% the size as the old on iOS....

[SteveMetro]

Originally Posted by CyberDyne

It's too small on the iOS (iPhone) App. and it seems much more difficult to read

Both the system and the Sans Pro are also small on the FM iPad app. I wish there was an option to make the email body font slightly larger, not as large as the larger font template