Use native system fonts

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Disk And Memory Space Visualization App built with Electron & d3.js

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Use native system fonts #14

Closed cheeaun closed 8 years ago

cheeaun commented 8 years ago

On Mac, use San Francisco for newer OS with fallback Helvetica Neue. On Windows, Segoe UI. And so on for other OS.

Relevant articles:

http://furbo.org/2015/07/09/i-left-my-system-fonts-in-san-francisco/
https://medium.com/@mwichary/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596f

zz85 commented 8 years ago

nice links Chee Aun! would you happen to know of any examples that has implemented this well? Now that I'm also using Photon, I'm not sure how well this goes with the windows build too..

cheeaun commented 8 years ago

One example would be https://medium.com/ (some text uses system while some uses Serif). My app http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ is already embracing this and haven't seen any issues.

Here's also a more recent article http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/using-system-ui-fonts-practical-guide/