#2457 - Swap Helvetica Neue with Ideal Sans

[ESWAT]

WIP Fixes #2457

Things I’ve noticed by just swapping references to Helvetica with Ideal:

1. The baseline in Ideal Sans is higher than in Helvetiva, so there’s a larger gap in some buttons.
2. The strokes are thicker in Ideal for the same font-weights compared to Helvetica

So we may have to individually tweak buttons so they look symmetric. As for the strokes we may want to use Ideal Sans Semibold instead of Bold (though this is just my personal preference).

[chadwhitacre]

Rebased on master.

[chadwhitacre]

Let's stick with Bold for now. Once we have Ideal in place I see us making a lot of changes to our typography. I don't think we'll be using bold in the same way. I also want to bring Surveyor in like we have on Building Gittip.

I'm seeing a few tweaks needed; the other big thing we need is to figure out Typography.com's production deployment story.

[chadwhitacre]

I've tweaked a couple places where the font was overflowing. I've also deployed the font set to our CDN and switched to linking to that.

[chadwhitacre]

@ESWAT Wanna review my changes? I'm ready to merge this when you are.

[ESWAT]

@whit537 changes look good. 👍

[ericmeltzer]

Hey the new font looks kinda weird on profile pages; the cents a user receives are way bigger than the dollars. Intentional?

[apetresc]

It's not that the cents are bigger, it's just that certain digits in that font extend below the baseline (where normally fonts don't do that). It just depends on which digits appear where; this particular total has the opposite effect, where the dollars appear way bigger:

[ericmeltzer]

Ah, you're right. I find that effect kind of weird, but if it doesn't
bother anyone else, I don't mind either.

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Adrian Petrescu [email protected]
wrote:

It's not that the cents are bigger, it's just that certain digits in that
font extend below the baseline (where normally fonts don't do that). It
just depends on which digits appear where; this particular total has the
opposite effect, where the dollars appear way bigger:

[image: screenshot 2014-07-04 15 01 55]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/14872/3484540/c79c3c50-03ad-11e4-905b-d7578b61ce19.png

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[ESWAT]

There might be a non-oldstyle version of Ideal that we can use. I recall there were variants of Ideal but I did not explore what those variants were.

[seanlinsley]

Another issue: Gittip admins who view a team see the navigation bar break to a second line.