Maniphest T16059

Remove -webkit-font-smoothing and -moz-osx-font-smoothing from CSS
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	aklapper
	Sun, May 4, 12:03

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See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-smooth and https://caniuse.com/font-smooth - no plans to standardize.

macOS devices commonly have Retina screens nowadays; best rendering settings should be decided by the system and/or browser but not by a website.

https://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/ and https://ui.dev/rwd/articles/font-smoothing and https://github.com/woocommerce/storefront/issues/698 are some opinion pieces (whicht you may disagree with).

Basically: Ship less non-standard, platform-specific, nowadays rather irrelevant stuff in our CSS files to reduce CSS size.

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	Accepted	D25989 Remove macOS specific font smoothing CSS

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aklapper created this task.Sun, May 4, 12:03

Herald added subscribers: Cigaryno, Matthew, chris, tobiaswiese. · View Herald TranscriptSun, May 4, 12:03

aklapper updated the task description. (Show Details)Sun, May 4, 12:06

aklapper added a revision: D25989: Remove macOS specific font smoothing CSS.Sun, May 4, 12:15

Nice. Just for fun I've played intensively with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-smooth without being able to notice whatsoever difference, so, green light I assume. Thanks

valerio.bozzolan moved this task from Backlog to We did it 😍 on the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 board.Mon, May 5, 11:53

aklapper mentioned this in Z1: Phorge.Tue, May 6, 06:50