This is also a feature of the Tsurukame app on iOS, though the font choices are a bit limited.
TIL! Thank you so much!
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Here is the fix for Jitai, Yakakuza Super Boss @_josh (https://community.wanikani.com/u/_josh) did this: Jitai (ĺä˝): The font randomizer that fits - #711 by _josh
This font is WAY too thick. I can barely read any of the kanji, itâs hurting my head. Since itâs through WaniKani now, can you please add a thickness selection in the settings.
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I think the radical handling maybe a bit inconsistent because some WK radicals are not stand-alone characters that exist in any font, instead theyâre vector drawings. Like the âspikesâ radical for instance: https://www.wanikani.com/radicals/spikes
That being said everything looks reasonably consistent for me here, but I use Firefox on Linux so my environment is probably not what most people use in this threadâŚ
Also for all the people in this thread complaining that a switch from one high-quality, high-resolution, standard-looking font to an other high-quality, high-resolution, standard-looking font is enough to really hurt their ability to read kanji comfortably because the lines are a little too thick or a little too thin⌠I have bad newsâŚ
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I like how the fonts update looks. Itâs been a lot easier for me to look at.
I canât understand all the complaint, itâs like a good practice to read kanji in other fonts, which IMO is an important aspect as well
That being said, I think I should have a look at Jitai 
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Just play retro low-resolution games for a while and youâll never mind modern fonts ever again:
WaniKani April fools idea: switch to a 12x12 pixel grid font for a day.
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to quote Fry from Futurama:
FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT
jk Iâm waiting for a Jitai update so I can have my thicc fonts backâŚ
Someone posted a workaround if you donât want to wait: Jitai (ĺä˝): The font randomizer that fits - #711 by _josh
Got it! 
I do like the new font for the text entry. It works better on a smaller scale for me.
I think youâre post reads more like a conspiracy theory than an assumption. It seems to me like you are passing off a lot of claims as facts and then further speculating on top of them. Regardless of whether or not this change was problematic, we could at least act in good faith towards others. Every participant here is human and we would be kind to show them some respect or generosity of spirit.
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Windows 11 (23H3), Firefox 122.0.1
Looks fine to me 
(Edit: the 400 font weight for kanji honestly looks very similar to the font before the change, so itâs not really much of a change for me. Now I wonder what font Firefox was putting in for me)
Personally I prefer the 400 font weight over 300. The only thing that seems weird to me is that the H3 headings are thinner than the paragraph (theyâre still set to 300 according to Inspect Element), maybe thatâs why the paragraph font weight looks thick to some people?
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I think it would have been more accurate if you said that you canât relate to all of the complaints. Itâs an important distinction when it comes to communication. The fact that something doesnât bother you doesnât mean that you canât understand the concept of being bothered by something. Different people have different needs, itâs a spectrum.
Yes the problem (also with Google Maps, Google Analytics, etc.) is that itâs on you as a website operator (in the law: data controller) to show that anyone you get services from that has access to userâs personal data (in the law: data processors) complies with the provisions of GDPR and that you have appropriate reasons to share data with them. Google services have been found many times not to comply with GDPR requirements, including Google Fonts in particular.
You basically do for client side requests, since causing a request shares an IP address which is personal data under GDPR. Server side requests depend on what data youâre sending on the userâs behalf.
There are multiple ways to get permission though, such as consent (those GDPR popups you see browsing the web in Europe, though arguably many of them are themselves GDPR violations for using dark patterns to obtain âconsentâ for advertising), or contract (basically âitâs literally required to do what the user told you to doâ, like when Anki sends your data to Ankiweb, because youâve pressed the button to send your data to Ankiweb).
Also in the case of Google Fonts, if your server fetched the font file from Google Fonts and served it to the user, thatâs probably ok by the GDPR, since youâre no longer causing the userâs IP address to be sent to google. (It might not be ok by Google Fontâs TOS or your bandwidth bill, however)
For people surprised this is a problem of the website operator and not of Google, thatâs how EU law in general works. Similarly, if I buy a kettle and it explodes the first time I turn it on, thatâs the storeâs problem. They canât insist I deal with the manufacturer. They can deal with the manufacturer if theyâre unhappy with the good Iâve returned to them, but they canât force the customer to. The reason being is that the entity that has the direct relationship with the customer is far more likely to be reachable by EU law.
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Hi, make the fonts less bold, the update is terrible 
Uhhh, to me, these two phrases sound the same? 
(Sorry if Iâm being stupid, Iâm not a native speakerâŚ)
Those cutesy handwritten notes in manga are the bane of my existence.
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Iâve read a ton of manga in the past 6 months and those drive me crazy too. Iâd probably be more bothered by the font change here if it was my first time going through WaniKani, but now Iâm also accustomed to different fonts anyways so it doesnât really matter to me anymore as long as itâs CLEAR what Iâm looking at lol.
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Yeah thatâs what makes them so much worse than even super-stylized print fonts, sometimes you donât even know if youâre looking at one, two or three characters in a weird scribble⌠Many times I thought I was trying to decode some weird kanji only to realize that it was just two poorly written kana mashed togetherâŚ
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