- From: NFSL2001 via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:22:19 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> NOPE. Windows users may run extremely old apps like an antique. It may expect MS UI Gothic or Meiryo UI, which are former Japanese UI fonts. Windows platform has too many old or even rotten (proprietary) applications to let users choose the system font. Older version of Windows like Windows XP allowed users to customise the UI typeface, and that is what should be used if CSS `system-ui` was available at that time. This is definitely the fault on Microsoft on removing customisation options for end users, but I digress. --- Suggestion text for W3C: > [!NOTE] > `system-ui` is dependent on operating system implementation, which may reference user locale and language settings, and provides varying level of text shaping support; this may cause the displayed typeface to be undesirable for some end users *(e.g. Simplified Chinese users might get a monospaced serif font on older version of Windows)*. Note that some operating system vendors does not offer means to customise `system-ui`, unlike browser UAs that generally allow users to customise `sans-serif` or `serif` font family. As the name implies, `system-ui` should be used on UI elements such as web application, and not for large paragraphs of text or articles. -- GitHub Notification of comment by NightFurySL2001 Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3658#issuecomment-3303510348 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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