[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #45881: Twenty Nineteen: Remove Baskerville Old Face from the font stack

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#45881: Twenty Nineteen: Remove Baskerville Old Face from the font stack
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 Reporter:  kjellr         |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Bundled Theme  |    Version:
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:  has-patch
  Focuses:                 |
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 As per discussion on GitHub:

 https://github.com/WordPress/twentynineteen/issues/737

 Baskerville Old Face:

 - Is difficult to read due to its mix of thin and thick strokes
 - Has poor language/extended character support
 - Does not reliably have other weights/styles (bold, italic, etc), so
 needs to rely on browser approximations of those variants.

 The next fonts down the stack (Garamond and Times) are more properly
 aligned to the appearance of the top-level serif font in the stack
 (Hoefler Text), and work better in its place.

 Baskerville Old Face:

 [[Image(https://cldup.com/x_o4BHtNws-2000x2000.png)]]

 Garamond (Will replace Baskerville Old Face):

 [[Image(https://cldup.com/NpDakLN0d9-1200x1200.png)]]

 Times New Roman (Fallback):

 [[Image(https://cldup.com/2iHQYmK74L-2000x2000.png)]]

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