[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6616: Fonts in RTLed administration interface

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#6616: Fonts in RTLed administration interface
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 Reporter:  RanYanivHartstein  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement        |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  Administration     |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal             |    Keywords:           
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 The RTL styles for the administration interface specify fonts that can be
 less than ideal with some of the scripts that are written from right to
 left.

 For e.g., while serif fonts look great on screen with latin scripts, their
 equivalents in Hebrew are rather hard to read in anything less than about
 18 points; Arial on the Mac has only latin glyphs and is not available at
 all on most Linux distros; Verdana has no Hebrew glyphs at all, etc.

 I submitted a patch in ticket #6365 that among other things switched the
 RTL styles to all sans-serif fonts, but it was ignored - I don't know if
 this was on purpose or not, so I opened this ticket to focus the
 discussion on the fonts issue instead of other RTL related issues.

 I suggest switching all fonts in the RTL styles to generic "sans-serif"
 fonts instead of specifying fonts that may only work for a certain script
 or a certain platform. That way, the best fonts will always be used on
 each platform and for each script.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6616>
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