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Move Menlo before Consolas in monospace font stack #1487

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Microsoft Office for Mac products install a number of Microsoft fonts, including Consolas. This means that people who:

  • are using a Mac and
  • haven’t manually installed SF Mono and
  • are using a browser that does not automatically pull in SF Mono from the OS (e.g. Chrome) and
  • have Consolas on their system

are getting all monospace text in Consolas instead of Menlo, which is the next-best choice after SF Mono for macOS.

This does mean people on Windows who have manually installed Menlo will get that instead of Consolas, but the number of people this affects is far less than Macs with Office and Chrome.

/cc @primer/ds-core

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This does mean people on Windows who have manually installed Menlo will get that instead of Consolas, but the number of people this affects is far less than Macs with Office and Chrome.

This sounds reasonable to me. 👍

@arzg Thanks. 🙇

@simurai simurai merged commit 0298b69 into primer:main Jul 2, 2021
@primer-css primer-css mentioned this pull request Jul 2, 2021
@lunacookies lunacookies deleted the mono-font-order branch July 2, 2021 06:25
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