Thread:Talk:Universal Language Selector/Autonym font deficiencies/reply (5)

I also see these these texts displayed fine with the **default** fonts installed on my PC, but NOT when the font is forced explicitly to Autonym (via the CSS class).

Georgian and Sinhalese is also almost unreadable with the Autonym font, even if it can render it with big sizes. Hinting is the issue here, where some essential strokes are not visible at all at wiki default sizes (this should read OK for all sizes >= 10px, i.e. about 8pt on desktop/notebook, 6pt on smaller screens like smartphones).

Note: you include the additional font "UnicodeBMPFallbackSIL". This is stupid as this breaks completely the reason why this font was designed: reduced time and bandwidth to load many fonts in pages listing many language names. Don't do this! This class should only list that font (and should probably not even list the pseudo-font "serif" like it is in your message) !

The "autonym" class MUST reference only this font (plus "sans-serif": it won't break, if ever some other text like some wikitext gets rendered where only a language name should be shown, e.g. via a error in templates usage, or if the webfont is not loaded by the browser; "sans-serif" is the pseud-font used by default everywhere in MediaWiki). Note that the "Autonym" font is here a webfont coming from ULS, not your font "UnicodeBMPFallbackSIL", or the pseudo-fonts ("sans-serif" and "serif")