Steps to reproduce
Open Chrome or Desktop App. Type on Russian.
Expected result
normal text
Actual result
ugly text with big spacing between letters
Environment
Mac, Chrome and Desktop app;
Open Chrome or Desktop App. Type on Russian.
normal text
ugly text with big spacing between letters
Mac, Chrome and Desktop app;
Some other Russian user has made a comment, but he didnât reply me after I asked what are the standard fonts to use for Russian text.
We do not know all the languages in the world⌠in fact I can barely tell that is considered âuglyâ (since Iâve never really seen much Russian text).
There are a few options in Settings - Preferences - Font options - East-asian fonts and most of them are suggested by our users. Weâd love to add prettier fonts for Russian (or Cyrillic in general), but we need your help.
Most fonts have both serif and sans serif, where serif looks more academic/formal (like Times New Roman) and sans-serif looks more casual (like Arial), is that the same with Russian text?
I think thereâs a problem with the Whitney font. Maybe it lacks cyrillic symbols? Hereâs how it looks for me with Russian and English text (in Firefox).
Other fonts from settings look pretty much the same in Russian and in English. Hereâs Roboto:
I think that apart from some non-Latin symbols the Russian texts look mostly similar to English, the serif/sans-serif thing is the same. And the weird letter spacing Pavel saw is definitely ugly =).
Yes, the problem with Whitney font. Other fonts looks good. Thanks, I didnât see this settings. Whitney font also looks not bad in Safari. Chrome and Desktop app has this issue.
But if I switch font from Whitney to any other, in some places I still can see ugly spacing. For example in search results and bookmark removing alert:
It looks like the font setting doesnât get applied to the search results page. I use Roboto but the text on the search page still tries hard to be Whitney. Hereâs what I see:
I donât have the spacing issue but the mismatch doesnât look nice either.
Ok, I see, Iâll investigate the Whitney font and see why itâs missing those symbols. Itâs especially important as itâs the default font.
Thatâs definitely a bug, could you please file a bug for this? Thanks!
Erica, symbols are not missed. They have too wide spacing.
This is what I see on desktop app:
There might be something different about our systemsâŚ
Iâve looked that happen in HTML code when I change font in the Settings.
When I set Roboto elements, I get this style.
style=âfont-family: Roboto, âMicrosoft YaHeiâ, 垎软é
éť, âHiragino Sans GBâ, ĺŹééťä˝;â
When I set Whitney
style=âfont-family: Whitney, âMicrosoft YaHeiâ, 垎软é
éť, âHiragino Sans GBâ, ĺŹééťä˝;â
The different is not mach, only first element is changed. This list tells web browser where to search character. Now it knows what to do if it canât find character in the font. It must search in the second font, in the third, and so on.
On my system I donât have Microsoft YaHei and 垎软é
éť font. I have âHiragino Sans GBâ font. And this font on my system has a lack.
Maybe Erica has âMicrosoft YaHeiâ font in her system.
Ah, I see!
If you just want to use the system font, maybe try out the âSystemâ option under âFontâ?
If I set system or any other, I still has a problem with search results, bookmark alerts, and item dragging.
Re: search results, thatâs the same bug raised by @dvasyukova above.
The other places are system text. To distinguish them from user-input text, they donât use the custom set font.
Pavel, thatâs not what I meant. I meant all this is because these Russian symbols are missing in Roboto, which leads to the weird spacing as âHiragino Sans GBâ is used. If Whitney were complete in the first place, all this would be solved.
Makes sense?
Thanks for digging this up!
How will you fix this?
Can you add missed characters to Whitney?
I think you also could add default font to the list
Whitney, âMicrosoft YaHeiâ, {NEW}, 垎软é
éť, âHiragino Sans GBâ, ĺŹééťä˝;
Where {NEW} - is some russian compatible font, which is look alike on Whitney.
It might break other fonts because of the exactly same reason we talked about here, so I still prefer figuring out how to add the missing fonts in Whitney.
we can change font in settings, but when we share a list it opens with default options. I suggest two ways for this: