Typography refresh/es

Objetivos
La tipografía es un elemento visual fundamental del lenguaje de Wikipedia. La actualización (opcional) tipográfica se basa en las siguientes necesidades:

Legibilidad: Los tipos de letra deben ser legibles a cualquier tamaño. La tipografía como elemento debe ayudar a diferenciar claramente los elementos de interfaz del contenido del artículo.

Accessibility: Dyslexia and visual impairments must not get in the way of access. We must enable access for users with impairments

Disponibilidad: Cualquier tipo de letra que utilicemos debe estar ya disponible, o disponibilizarlo. Cualquier selección debe adaptarse a los distintos dispositivos y plataformas (OS X, Windows, Linux, sistemas operativos móviles).

Coherencia: Una experiencia visual coherente en el escritorio y en el móvil.

Cambios principales
En resumen: Los cambios principales son: tipos de letra con remates para los encabezamientos, tipos lineales para el cuerpo del texto y una pequeña reducción en el tamaño de la letra para los elementos de navegación.

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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.

Implementación
Si te interesa conocer más información técnica acerca del motivo tras este experimento, consulta esta página.