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== About the use of Webfonts ==

It has been argued that Arial is a safe choice for the default typeface due to its availability.
Using webfonts (+ Arial as fallback) could be a compatible solution that would offer more options in terms of typography.

From the technical side, I think there is already webfont support through a MediaWiki extension for displaying non-latin scripts.
[[User:Pginer|Pginer]] ([[User talk:Pginer|talk]]) 12:23, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

== Bold italic ==

Sometimes bold ''and'' italics are called for; for example, when convention asks us to bold a key term (as in the lead of an encyclopedia article), but that key term is the title of a work that should be italicized, or a Latin binomial taxon.  [[User:LtPowers|LtPowers]] ([[User talk:LtPowers|talk]]) 13:41, 7 August 2012 (UTC)⏎
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==Arial?==
Even before people get to the aesthetic qualities of Arial and its non-free licensing, there is a practical problem with it: It is nowhere near being a "global typeface", as this page suggests, because it covers very few writing systems: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and maybe Thai. It doesn't even cover Latin, Cyrillic and Greek well and has a lot missing characters.

Forcing Arial on languages that it doesn't support is pointless: they will change it in local CSS anyway. This includes languages of West Africa, which are written in Latin, but use many characters that Arial doesn't have.

I don't quite understand why should we specify an explicit font-family in the first place. People who read in languages for which fonts are easily available should be able to use their own preferred font (unless Wikipedia wants to create a unique identity for itself, but Arial is obviously not a font for unique identity). For people who read languages that Arial doesn't support at all it can a be a problem - millions of people still use browsers that don't support fallback fonts, and they will be forced to see squares instead of letters. --[[User:Amire80|Amir E. Aharoni]] ([[User talk:Amire80|talk]]) 08:51, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

==First line indentation==
Is there any consideration of indenting first lines of paragraphs, like in books?

Some Wikipedias use it already, for example Thai and Ossetic. --[[User:Amire80|Amir E. Aharoni]] ([[User talk:Amire80|talk]]) 08:51, 9 August 2012 (UTC)