Switch font stack to Helvetica, Arial #1313
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While Verdana and Georgia are widely available on user machines, they have become a rare sight in web interfaces today, and are more commonly associated with old websites. The list of fonts that are on most users computers is small, and few of those are acceptable to use as a general-purpose web font for Jenkins. This leaves Helvetica and its close cousin Arial; Helvetica looks slightly nicer but its cousin is deployed on many more machines, so it provides a good fallback. Change the default font color #000 -> jenkinsci#333. This provides a slightly nicer contrast with pure white, without hurting accessibility. Change "Jenkins" title to a link, and the font from Georgia to Helvetica. Text plays better with SEO and reduces the bytes needed to be transferred over the wire.
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core » jenkins-core #1002 FAILURE |
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👍 Helvetica 👎 Helvetica as logo font. FYI this cannot be merged (therefore the build failure), probably because #1310 was merged. |
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Yup I got the notification, working on a fix Kevin Burke On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Daniel Beck notifications@github.com
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While Verdana and Georgia are widely available on user machines, they have
become a rare sight in web interfaces today, and are more commonly associated
with old websites. The list of fonts that are on most users computers is small,
and few of those are acceptable to use as a general-purpose web font for
Jenkins. This leaves Helvetica and its close cousin Arial; Helvetica looks
slightly nicer but its cousin is deployed on many more machines, so it provides
a good fallback.
Change the default font color #000 -> #333. This provides a slightly nicer
contrast with pure white, without hurting accessibility.
Change "Jenkins" title to a link, and the font from Georgia to Helvetica. Text
plays better with SEO and reduces the bytes needed to be transferred over the
wire.
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