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Code52 / DownmarkerWPF

MarkPad - a visual Markdown editor (inspired by the Downmarker project)
http://code52.org/DownmarkerWPF/
Microsoft Public License
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Default composer font should be Consolas, not Segoe UI #388

Closed lorddev closed 10 years ago

lorddev commented 11 years ago

The Windows 8 Guidelines page contains the following text:

Which fonts should I use? Use these fonts in your Windows Store app:

  • Use Segoe UI (the primary Windows typeface) for UI elements such as buttons and * date pickers. Segoe UI supports Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, and Georgian alphabets.
  • Use Calibri for text that the user both reads and writes such as email and chat. Calibri supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets.
  • Use Cambria for larger blocks of text such as for a magazine or RSS reader. Cambria supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets.

While it is understood that DM is not a "Windows Store app", it seems that it should fit with the overall guidelines of Windows 8 apps, as well as existing early-adopter Metro-UI apps like Visual Studio 2012 and GitHub for Windows. Segoe UI is specifically for UI elements, not content. Anything that the user enters should therefore be something else. Fitting with the overall theme of the design guidelines, the markup editor font ought to be the monospace font equivalent of the Cambria+Calibri package, and therefore should be Consolas. Please.

shiftkey commented 11 years ago

I like fixed-width fonts whenever I'm writing code or Markdown, but I'm using Source Code Pro at the moment instead of Consolas.

If someone wants to propose this change as a pull request I'm happy to review it and pull in feedback from others.

JakeGinnivan commented 10 years ago

This going anywhere? Should we close?

lorddev commented 10 years ago

Closing. After further research, it looks like I was mistaken. Segoe UI is perfectly fine for content.