The new fonts look fine to me. Gotta get used to variation eventually.
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2024-02-15T01:22:00Z
| Edition | Windows 10 Home |
|---|---|
| Version | 22H2 |
| OS build | 19045.3930 |
| Experience | Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 |
Google Chrome: Version 121.0.6167.184 (Official Build) (64-bit)
I also have Google Japanese Input installed if that makes a difference.
Iâm confused at what is ridiculous exactly. Itâs common for kanji in big font to look like this ?
Here is a screenshot of the front page of today mainichi shinbun. Take a look at the 性 near the end:
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No strong opinion on the change, though in general I like the move away from Google. I canât speak to the differences in accessibility between the old font and the new one, either; to my eye, the fonts look very similar, even though the weight is slightly different.
This change inspired me to go ahead and install the jitai font randomizer userscript, and man, does it make my reviews take longer! But I think itâs really neat and I would love to see something like that integrated into WK proper, maybe as an optional setting, since I can see how making it default could create accessibility issues and make the learning curve way too steep for brand new users.
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These look centered?
Am I missing something? What is different? Everything looks the same? People are talking about how they canât read the fonts they are so thin. I just canât see that. When you click on the kanji or vocab they are pretty dang bold to me? Am I crazy?
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No, no, you are quite sane. The font change went through several changes since it has been announced.
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I absolutely love the new font. Canât say the same for many of the updates since I joined, so Iâm very happy to be able to praise something.
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Itâs interesting, the radicals that arenât centered sit to the left where most of them (tsunami, soul, animal and fingers) sit there exclusively in the kanji theyâre part of, so I think it would make sense to leave them not centered. The Stick and Barb radicals are centered, just like they sit in the middle of the kanji they build.
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Itâs because your screen is so tiny, but itâs also something they can fix (itâs a CSS flexbox issue). They need to add width: 0 to .extra-study-button__link, since itâs set to flex: 1 0 auto. This will allow the text to wrap on small screens, rather than crushing the item next to it.
Proof:
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I also set the line-height to 1.125 since 1 is too small.
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I legitimately thought this was on purpose to begin with
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Yeah, if you werenât familiar with the way it was it would totally make sense. Those radicals were centered before, and some of the characters were images and not fonts. Now they finally look unified.
Iâd suggest that anyone feeling that things donât look right do a force-reload holding Shift (e.g. Shift-click, Shift-Ctrl-R, Shift-â-R, etc.), clear cache for the site, and/or try another browser to see if that makes a difference.
Not to discount any of the concerns people are raising, but a lot of what Iâm seeing in this thread suggests that many people are simply not seeing the same/correct thing in the first place: screenshots that donât match each other, seemingly different fonts/weights in different places on the page, even right next to each other in the same word in at least one case, which isnât normal and seems indiciative of a local issue â also potentially something else with rendering in the browser or display settings (i.e. non-native resolution/scaling). Better to be sure!
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Thatâs because youâre late to the thread! The fonts and layouts have been adjusted a lot throughout this thread so people showing different things are doing so because those different things were all official releases. Itâs not due to a caching issue or anybody misunderstanding.
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Iâm not picking on you @Cookie316 but I have seen this statement about multiple updates during this thread which has me confused. I have only made one update so far where I changed the original font weight from 300 (which people said was too thin) to 400 which people have said was too thick.
Am I misunderstanding what others are saying when they say there have been multiple updates?
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Nope, âmultiple updatesâ is referring to the initial one plus the later one. New people coming in assume it was just one update and get confused by the earlier comments complaining about what they percieve to be a non-issue. So the âmultiple updatesâ is clarifying that the initial complaints were about a previous version pre-update and thatâs why they no longer seem relevant.
And donât worry I donât feel picked on whatsoever. Itâs all good.
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@Cookie316 : I saw people posting about the issues I mentioned after @tofugu-scott already said an update had been deployed, hence my comments about potential local issues, for those still seeing inconsistency. It never hurts to check. 
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I wish custom font selection was built into the website instead of having to use scripts and other work arounds though.
Personally, I love the UD Digi Kyokasho Font and override the website font anyway. Itâs more natural looking and easy on the eyes IMO. I think itâs helped my recognition some when Iâm reading texts. In fact, I made UD Digi my default Japanese text font in Microsoft Word and OneNote.
But, anything is better than Mincho. For some reason, I canât stand that font.
UD Digi Kyokasho was designed for easy readability
Noto Sans JP is part of Googleâs full Noto Sans library of fonts
FG Kyokasho is similar to what Japanese dictionaries use.
MS Mincho is ugly
Klee One is supposed to emulate a clean handwritten style
And if youâre a real masochist:
HGP Gyoshotai
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The fonts are way too thick now; my brain is having a hard time âseeingâ them properly. Iâm getting close to level 60, so a change this big right now is REALLY frustrating because at the moment I feel like I canât use WaniKani at all.