I might be missing some font installed on my system, but today, when I went to the Gramps wiki to find out what report format would be ideal for me, I was welcomed with a web interface that was basically unreadable until I got to 200% magnification (or went to Firefox reading mode).
The font is so narrow that even at 200% the letters are barely 1px wide, make them gray and headache inducing on 100%.
It’s not how the wiki is supposed to look like, right? What fonts should I be having installed?
It looks to me that the wiki do not specify a specific font, it just says to use whatever sans-serif font that is the standard of your browser/system. (Look at the font-family property)
If I set the font for sans-serif to Liberation Sans, it looks a bit better, I think the problem is with the fact that the default font-weight for body is lighter. My original default sans-serif was rendered unreadable as that implements a very extremely light “lighter” mode.
It is much better with Liberation Sans, but I don’t really think that lighter font weight is a good choice for large walls of text what people need to read carefully.
Sounds like you were using a mobile device to visit the wiki.
I don’t care for the default “mobile view” theme (called Vector) either… mostly because it collapses the Tables of Contents. Agree that its font is too lightweight.
The ability to choose the Theme in the Appearance tab of Preferences is a reason to sign up for an account for the Wiki… even when you don’t intend to contribute edits to it.
You can also scroll to the footer of the page and choose the Desktop View.
Sorry for reviving this old thread, and for not flagging this earlier, but the Gramps Wiki has been unreadable due to this issue for me for quite a while already.
The culprit is the CSS directive font-weight:lighter; on body in load.php. On my system, this uses weight 100, which is unreadable. If I disable that directive, it looks normal. A slightly thinner font (which might be what was intended) would be obtained by setting it to 300 explicitly (400 is the default weight).
If it looks ok for you guys, it’s probably because the default font chosen by your system happens not to have a font-weight 100 variant.
There have been a lot of complaints about it.
I think it has been ‘fixed’ in the past but reverts during each update or rebuild.
see bug report 11469
: [Mediawiki]Gramps project [Wiki] website (gramps-project.org) text looks somewhat anaemic in Firefox
The probable reason the repeat of the fix hasn’t gotten traction is:
All the people who could change it or register complaint have registered a MediaWiki account. So their preferences hide that the fix reverted.
Skins in the Gramps wiki preferences for registered users. Vector is the current default. But MonoBook would be a better default.
