https://nanx.me/tags/system-font-stack/ Recent content in system font stack on Nan Xiao | 肖楠 Hugo -- gohugo.io en Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://nanx.me/blog/post/font-variant-numeric/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://nanx.me/blog/post/font-variant-numeric/ TL;DR: If you use the native font stack (the default in Bootstrap 4+), check the numbers displayed in tables, especially on Apple’s platforms. Photo by Jen Theodore. A new problem Many of the content creation frameworks that support HTML output in the R world are getting upgraded to Bootstrap 4+: Shiny and R Markdown can use bslib to customize Bootstrap version; The three-column Bootstrap style for bookdown projects; The pkgdown 2. https://nanx.me/blog/post/the-return-of-the-native-font-stack/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 02:20:00 +0000 https://nanx.me/blog/post/the-return-of-the-native-font-stack/ Photo: Lead type As people said, web design is 95% typography. Once upon a time, people who care about the typography of their website define their font stack using CSS like this: font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; They secretly wish their website could look different from the mortal websites which use Times New Roman, Arial, or Georgia with the funny-looking numerals. Until one day, their sincerity impressed the god of typography, who granted them a technology named web fonts.