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  2. CONFSERVER-10522

Arial should be the base font, instead of Helvetica

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      Problem:
      The base font in Confluence, as specified in main-action.css is font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
      If a user has Helvetica installed on his system, Confluence will use this (ugly!) font.

      Improvement: In our opinion Arial should always be the default font, so --> font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

      This applies to two styles:

      main-action.css, line 5:

      body, p, td, table, tr, .bodytext, .stepfield
{
font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
line-height: 13pt;
color: #000000;
font-weight: normal;
}

      main-action.css, line 1256:

      input
{
font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
color: #000000;
}

            [CONFSERVER-10522] Arial should be the base font, instead of Helvetica

            John Engelke added a comment -

            From version 2.6 Confluence documentation stated the default scheme was reworked to use Arial: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+2.6+Release+Notes . This is a bug or at best extremely poor form.

            John Engelke added a comment - From version 2.6 Confluence documentation stated the default scheme was reworked to use Arial: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+2.6+Release+Notes . This is a bug or at best extremely poor form.

            Adnan Chowdhury [Atlassian] added a comment -

            Thank you for your suggestion.

            Unfortunately we feel that Helvetica is a fine font. For users who do not have Helvetica we degrade to Arial, as you've pointed out and so we feel that we've catered to all users.

            For some humorous reading on Arial, see here: http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html
            You may also be interested in this film about Helvetica: http://www.helveticafilm.com/ which shows Helvetica in its best light.

            Adnan Chowdhury [Atlassian] added a comment - Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately we feel that Helvetica is a fine font. For users who do not have Helvetica we degrade to Arial, as you've pointed out and so we feel that we've catered to all users. For some humorous reading on Arial, see here: http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html You may also be interested in this film about Helvetica: http://www.helveticafilm.com/ which shows Helvetica in its best light.

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              26df1c595a79 Sander van den Berg
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