What font is the main site supposed to be?

LB_

So in the past, thedailywtf has always used a lovely sans-serif font. Then I had a hard drive crash and had to reinstall my everything. Suddenly the site was now using a serif font, and the formatting was all weird (odd spacing in some places, etc). I looked at the CSS, and it seems to want to use Open Sans. Uh, why isn't there CSS to download it automagically? Anyway, I installed Open Sans, rebooted, and now the site renders properly (and also now uses the best font ever). But, I've seen lots of screenshots from people here and in their screenshots the site uses the serif font instead of Open Sans...so how long has it been this way?

Also, why no fallback? font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; isn't hard CSS. I can understand not wanting to have browsers automatically download the font from Google, but no fallback?

PJH

LB_

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LB_

Weird, in Chrome when I inspect element on some text, the only font-family that isn't inherit is "Open Sans". Installing the font did fix the problem so it's definitely a thing.

(Discourse kept submitting my post automatically for no reason, wtf)

PJH

LB_

powerlord

You realize he didn't say the forums, right?

@import url(//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,300,600,700);

and

body { background: #fff; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-weight: 400; color: #222; position: relative; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale; }

would seem to apply unless some other stylesheet is overriding it.

Edit:

LB_

I wonder why the @import wasn't working for me? I use the same thing on my site and it works fine.

PJH

@powerlord said:

You realize he didn't say the forums, right?

Ah. No.

dkf

It does mean that this time, this time, we can't blame Discourse.

LB_

I Ctrl+Shift+R'd and it broke again:

Oh well. Back to manually adjusting the CSS so I don't poke my eyes out with the sharp serifs.