Wire-desktop: Default font for application

[ghost]

Current webapp and, as far as I understand, desktop versions are using this line to define default font BlinkMacSystemFont,-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif which is clearly Mac-oriented and gives visually different results when compared to Windows and Linux. First three fonts are not available neither in Windows nor in Linux distributions (where Arial is a question too).

IMHO web fonts will provide more consistent design across all platforms. AFAIK all WebRTC-compatible browsers support some sort of web fonts.

E.g. Open Sans is available in wide range of weights/widths and uses more or less the same "light" glyph style. And it is used by Telegram as default fonts. Roboto/Fira are available in number of weights as well.

[ghost]

Or, just as another idea, do like DuckDuckGo does in its' settings allowing user to choose style he likes.

[shvchk]

Or maybe bundle some good UI font like Fira Sans or Open Sans, and use it.

[lipis]

We used to have a custom font, but we decided to go with the system fonts for various reasons. The most important reason is the support for multiple languages is handled much better since we don't have to worry about it. But you are right that they are macOS oriented.. here is a suggestion: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/pull/438

[lipis]

So it looks like we tried with Segoe but it wasn't very nice so we switched to Helvetica -> Arial.

[mohammadrafigh]

+1 for Open Sans which is really nice in many languages.

[flipswitchingmonkey]

Why not just make it configurable per install? Me for example, I prefer fixed-width fonts for chat, and I'd love to be able to set this up easily on a system where I know which fonts are available.

[h4tr3d]

+1 for configurable fonts. On my Linux laptop with 140PPI fonts too big. Also, like @flipswitchingmonkey I prefer fixed-width fonts for chats.

[ghost]

DuckDuckGo's approach is the best IMO, you are free to choose font you like. But since this bug is opened I have to use Stylish 🙂

[akkuman]

i want to know how to change the wire's font on windows

[helenakos]

We don't have plans to make changes to fonts in the next months so will close this issue.

[tredondo]

I'm visually impaired and as my vision is getting worse, I find it harder and harder to read anything in Wire.

We don't have plans to make changes to fonts in the next months so will close this issue.

How about in the next years? How long is Wire going to be stuck to a fixed 12px font when more and more screens are becoming 4K?