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ndarville / pony-forum

A modern alternative to ancient forum CMSes like vBulletin and PHPBB in Python on Django. (Alpha stage.) (NB: dotCloud have since removed their free Sandbox tier.)
http://pony-forum.com
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Implement Open Sans and replace a bunch of font stylings with it #98

Closed ndarville closed 11 years ago

ndarville commented 11 years ago

Consolas just does not work for this, but it looks like one of the only decent mono-spaced fonts out there. I have replaced it with Lucida Grande on Mac, but the font does not work after all, because

  1. It’s Mac-only
  2. Its glyphs are basically English-only
  3. It is sans-serif, not monospace

See how well it is used here.

How important is it that data aligns? Better to use a font that does not align than a monospaced font that is hard to read anyway.

ndarville commented 11 years ago

It takes too long to load, unfortunately. The artifacts where text is temporarily unrendered are too annoying to endure.

Still, the current font for #content-body and .words tables doesn’t cut it.