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Better sans-serif headings font-weight balance possible with serif headlines?
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In modern front-end times, and with better fonts, we are not limited to bold and normal as font-weight any more.

As of now, the serif headings h1 use '400' while h2-h5 uses 700. This results in an imbalanced look IMO.

I'd suggest to evaluate 600:

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Volker_E created this task.Nov 8 2019, 11:59 PM
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schoenbaechler added a subscriber: schoenbaechler.Dec 5 2019, 10:13 AM

Hey 👋, just fiddled around in the console with this on design.wikimedia.org. I’m in favor of font-weight: 600;. It feels more harmonic with h1, whereas 700 is competing with it.

Volker_E claimed this task.Dec 10 2019, 1:22 AM
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Volker_E added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 10 2019, 1:27 AM

Patch provided at https://github.com/wikimedia/WikimediaUI-Style-Guide/pull/316. Also clarifying language a lil better and resolving an error in a sentence.

Pginer-WMF added a comment.Dec 12 2019, 8:33 AM
In T237786#5734390, @Volker_E wrote:

This is ready to be reviewed @Pginer-WMF…

The updated style looks good to me. As pointed above, h2 headers have a better balance with h1, while still working well with respect the body text.

Volker_E closed this task as Resolved.Dec 12 2019, 6:34 PM
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