Launchpad itself

Default font should be changed to Vera Sans/Deja-Vu Sans/Verdana

Bug #435356 reported by Mat Tomaszewski on 2009-09-23

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Canonical SSO provider	Fix Released	High	Unassigned
Landscape Server	Fix Released	Medium	Sidnei da Silva	Landscape Server 1.4.0
Launchpad Blog WordPress Theme	Won't Fix	Low	Unassigned
Launchpad Development Wiki Moin theme	Won't Fix	Low	Unassigned
Launchpad Help Wiki Moin theme	Won't Fix	Low	Unassigned
Launchpad itself	Fix Released	High	Curtis Hovey	Launchpad itself 3.1.10
Ubuntu One Servers	Fix Released	Medium	Joshua Blount	Ubuntu One Servers w27-karmic-final
Ubuntu Website - OBSOLETE	Fix Released	Undecided	Matthew Nuzum

Bug Description

At the moment users see different fonts depending on the OS used - humanist (Vera Sans) on Ubuntu, neo-grotesque (Arial) on Mac or Windows. The global font definition should be changed to use humanist typeface only.

Tags:

Related branches

lp://qastaging/~sinzui/launchpad/canonical-fonts-bug-435356

Merged into lp://qastaging/launchpad

Gavin Panella (community): Approve (code) on 2009-10-14

Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.) on 2009-09-23

Changed in launchpad:
assignee:	nobody → Martin Albisetti (beuno)

Martin Albisetti (beuno) on 2009-09-23

affects:	launchpad → launchpad-foundations
Changed in ubuntuone-servers:
assignee:	nobody → Joshua Blount (jblount)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in ubuntuone-servers:
status:	New → Triaged
summary:	- Default font in LP should be changed to Vera Sans/Deja-Vu Sans/Verdana + Default font should be changed to Vera Sans/Deja-Vu Sans/Verdana

Martin Albisetti (beuno) on 2009-09-24

Changed in landscape:
assignee:	nobody → Sidnei da Silva (sidnei)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
assignee:	Martin Albisetti (beuno) → Curtis Hovey (sinzui)

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote on 2009-09-24:

The official CSS property is
font-family: bitstream vera sans, dejavu sans, verdana, sans-serif;

Which might always be applied to body or *.

Changed in launchpad-foundations:
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → 3.1.10

Sidnei da Silva (sidnei) on 2009-09-24

Changed in landscape:
milestone:	none → 1.4.0
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Sidnei da Silva (sidnei) wrote on 2009-09-24:

In landscape, we have a couple special headers which have serif fonts. What would be the recommended default for serif? (optionally, should any occurrence of serif in headers just be removed?)

Would this be a sane default?

font-family: "Bitstream Vera Serif", "Dejavu Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;

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Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.) wrote on 2009-09-24:

@ Sidnei

Could you please attach some screenshots of pages that include serif font?

Thanks!
m.

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Sidnei da Silva (sidnei) wrote on 2009-09-24:

screenshot_048.png Edit (24.5 KiB, image/png)

Here's one. It's probably the only one actually.

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Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.) wrote on 2009-09-24: Re: [Bug 435356] Re: Default font should be changed to Vera Sans/Deja-Vu Sans/Verdana

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> Here's one. It's probably the only one actually.
>
> ** Attachment added: "screenshot_048.png"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32357901/screenshot_048.png
>
>

Thanks Sidnei, I think we can safely change it to sans-serif.

Sidnei da Silva (sidnei) on 2009-09-24

tags:

added: review

Sidnei da Silva (sidnei) on 2009-09-25

Changed in landscape:
status:	New → In Progress

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Thomas Herve (therve) wrote on 2009-09-28:

For landscape:
* there is still a reference to the old family in the frontpage.css
* knowledge.css has a "sans-serif" mention which seems unnecessary

+1!

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Jamu Kakar (jkakar) wrote on 2009-09-28:

For Landscape:

[1]

There are a few instances of 'font-family: sans-serif' in the
Salesforce stylesheets. I recommend you update them to use the
style you've used elsewhere:

font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Lucida Grande", "Verdana", sans-serif;

+1!

tags:

removed: review

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Sidnei da Silva (sidnei) wrote on 2009-09-29:

Merged to landscape trunk on r1372.

Changed in landscape:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.) on 2009-09-29

Changed in ubuntu-website:
assignee:	nobody → Matthew Nuzum (newz)

Joshua Blount (jblount) on 2009-10-13

Changed in ubuntuone-servers:
milestone:	none → w27-karmic-final
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Joshua Blount (jblount) on 2009-10-13

Changed in ubuntuone-servers:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

Curtis Hovey (sinzui) on 2009-10-13

Changed in launchpad-foundations:
status:	Triaged → In Progress

Joshua Blount (jblount) on 2009-10-14

Changed in ubuntuone-servers:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.) wrote on 2009-10-14:

The file browser and ajax popups seem not to respect the global setting.

For example:

.yui-pretty-overlay #yui-pretty-overlay-modal {
color:#484848;
font-family:sans-serif;

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote on 2009-10-15:

#10

Fixed in launchpad devel r9698.

Changed in launchpad-foundations:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote on 2009-10-15:

#11

It should be rolled out on the website as part of a big set of changes.

Changed in ubuntu-website:
status:	New → Fix Committed
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Matthew Nuzum (newz) on 2009-10-16

Changed in ubuntu-website:
importance:	Medium → Undecided

Jamu Kakar (jkakar) on 2009-10-20

tags:

added: needs-testing

Curtis Hovey (sinzui) on 2009-10-20

Changed in canonical-identity-provider:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → High

Sidnei da Silva (sidnei) on 2009-10-20

tags:

removed: needs-testing

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Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.) wrote on 2009-10-27:

#12

Just to confirm, the font definitions are as per Curtis's comment:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/435356/comments/1

Please *do not* include any other fonts, like Lucida Grande or similar.

Stuart Metcalfe (stuartmetcalfe) on 2009-11-04

Changed in canonical-identity-provider:
assignee:	nobody → Szilveszter Farkas (phanatic)

Jamu Kakar (jkakar) on 2009-11-04

Changed in landscape:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote on 2009-11-05: Bug 435356 Fix released

#13

Fixed released in launchpad-project 3.1.10.

Changed in launchpad-foundations:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Stuart Metcalfe (stuartmetcalfe) on 2009-11-13

Changed in canonical-identity-provider:
assignee:	Szilveszter Farkas (phanatic) → nobody

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Stuart Metcalfe (stuartmetcalfe) wrote on 2010-02-17:

#14

This was released in c-i-p with the new codebase.

Changed in canonical-identity-provider:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

Matthew Nuzum (newz) on 2010-06-08

Changed in ubuntu-website:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Anthony Lenton (elachuni) on 2010-06-09

Changed in shipit:
assignee:	nobody → Anthony Lenton (elachuni)

Anthony Lenton (elachuni) on 2010-06-10

Changed in shipit:
milestone:	none → 10.4.2
status:	New → Fix Released

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote on 2010-06-25:

#15

I am marking the three launchpad wiki/wordpress sites as low because I beleve the font rules we are considering a change the the fonts and all projects will need to be updated.

Changed in launchpad-dev-moin-theme:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in launchpad-help-moin-theme:
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in launchpad-news-wordpress-theme:
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in launchpad-help-moin-theme:
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in launchpad-news-wordpress-theme:
status:	New → Triaged

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote on 2010-08-22:

#16

I marked the remaining websites to wont fix because there is a new bug tracking the switch to the UbuntuBeta and Ubuntu fonts. See bug 620537.

Changed in launchpad-dev-moin-theme:
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in launchpad-help-moin-theme:
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in launchpad-news-wordpress-theme:
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix