[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:  has-patch needs-screenshots  |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by helen):

 In [changeset:"37361"]:
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 #!CommitTicketReference repository="" revision="37361"
 Drop Open Sans in the admin in favor of system fonts.

 Rejoice, for your admins will feel more native to your surrounding
 computing environment and likely load faster, especially when offline, as
 they no longer have to talk to The Google Overlord.

 At the time of introduction in 3.8, 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.

 There will definitely be visual bugs, mainly around alignment and spacing;
 these should be documented and reported on the ticket and fixed more
 atomically so that our current and future selves have a better
 understanding of what happened and why.

 The style remains registered, as it is almost certainly in use by themes
 and plugins.

 props mattmiklic.
 see #36753.
 }}}

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