[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          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui              |
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 When a visual and small screen admin refresh was introduced in 3.8 (by way
 of the feature plugin MP6), the admin font was changed to Open Sans to
 better complement the redesigned vector iconography. This change was not
 without its bumps or controversy, notably around extended character sets
 and that it is loaded from Google Fonts for a variety of reasons.

 I believe we have reached a point where we can go back to system fonts for
 a faster, more native-feeling admin experience. Via mattmiklic (aka MT):
 > Open Sans is no longer necessary. I originally introduced it into Core
 via MP6 because there were not good system fonts common to all platforms
 at the time. In the years since, Windows, Android, OS X, iOS, Firefox OS,
 and various flavors of Linux have all gotten their own (good) system UI
 fonts.

 For more on the feature project: https://make.wordpress.org/core/features
 /font-natively/

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