Typography refresh/de

Ziele
Schrift ist ein sichtbares Kernelement der Wikipedia-Programmiersprache. Das (opt in) Typografie-Update ist notwendig geworden durch:

Lesbarkeit: Schriften müssen in allen Größen deutlich lesbar sein. Schrift als Element muss helfen, zwischen Interface und Artikelinhalt zu unterscheiden.

Zugänglichkeit: Legasthenie und Sehbehinderungen darf darf des Zugriff nicht behindern. Wir müssen den Zugriff für Benutzer mit Beeinträchtigungen ermöglichen

Verfügbarkeit: Alle bereits verwendeten Schriften müssen bereits vorhandenen sein oder zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Jede Auswahl muss über alle Geräte und Plattformen zugänglich sein(OS X, Windows, Linux, Mobile Platforms)

Konsistenz: Eine einheitliche visuelle Erfahrung für Desktop und mobil.

Key Changes
TLDR: Key changes as part of this will include: serif typefaces for headings, sans serif for body copy & marginal reduction of type size in navigational elements.

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Headings font-family: Georgia, serif; Serif headings have been tested on Wikipedia mobile and have received a positive response.[clarification needed] With applying these changes to desktop, we are aiming for consistency between desktop and mobile styles.

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Body copy font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica", "Nimbus Sans L", "Arial", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; While Georgia and Helvetica are fonts optimized for the web, we can see that body gracefully degrades to Arial because it is freely available on nearly every computer and operating system while being a screen-friendly typeface. After that, there is a free font, Liberation Sans, and finally a fallback that is always available, sans-serif. This selection may change as other typefaces develop ubiquity. For the near future, Arial will continue to serve as WMF's fallback. On Linux-based operating systems, Nimbus Sans L & Liberation Sans will be specified as the san-serif fonts. Note that free systems may also substitute other free fonts for proprietary ones mentioned earlier in the stack.

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Reduced type size for navigational elements: Type size for navigation elements in the sidebar are reduced by 0.1–0.3 em to help them fade to the background in comparison to the article which is the foreground. Since the navigation areas are distinct, we expect that changes in the size will not hamper clicking on the links.

Implementation
If you are interested in further more technical information on the rationale behind this experiment you can read more.