[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36753: Use system fonts for a faster, more native-feeling admin

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#36753: Use system fonts for a faster, more native-feeling admin
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 Reporter:  helen                          |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)                 |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                         |   Milestone:  4.6
Component:  Administration                 |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-screenshots needs-patch  |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by mattmiklic):

 > Now that we're using system fonts it would be easy to use them as the
 default font for the visual editor too, instead of Georgia. In my opinion
 it looks cleaner and it matches better with the rest of the admin.

 There's no technical or design reason that using the system UI font for
 the editor wouldn't work, though I'll offer one reason why we didn't go
 this route on WordPress.com. Since the idea was to use system fonts for
 the sake of looking more native, we confined them to user interface
 elements. For content, we continued to use a serif typeface. This creates
 a clear typographic distinction between text that's part of the UI (like a
 button, menu item, or hint) and text that's content on your site (like a
 post or a comment).

 Either way can be the "right" way to go -- just wanted to lay out this
 reasoning in case folks think that a similar distinction would be useful
 to make here.

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