Text rendering: weight and consistency across OSes about ex_doc HOT 5 CLOSED

Awesome find! Indeed, I was testing it the wrong way. Would it be possible to apply these changes only to the sidebar? This way we don’t have to concern about other fonts.

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Ah, thanks for confirming.

Yes, as mentioned, we can limit the application of the alternative anti-aliasing method to the sidebar. This comes with the disadvantage of the main content continuing to be inconsistent across OSes, and so I recommend we only take this approach if you don't like the lighter rendering of Merriweather for the main text.

I appreciate we're most concerned with Lato at small sizes in light on dark, which is mostly/all(?) the sidebar, but, nonetheless, it seems like a good opportunity to get everything as consistent as possible. But if you confirm the light rendering of Merriweather in Mac OS as in the last screenshot above is not desired, I'll proceed and limit to the sidebar.

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Can you please send a PR? I am unable to make these configurations have an effect and I think I am missing something up.

I am also happy to change the font if we think it is too thin and there isn't an increased weight. :)

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Is that a PR to apply the alternative anti-aliasing to everything, so that you can test the effect? I'm happy to do that, perhaps in a couple of stages so that you can test the main effect before I tweak details here and there or scale back to just the sidebar if necessary.

Edit: now I read your last sentence again I think that is what you meant - sorry. But if you could confirm/clarify so that we're definitely on the same page, that would be great.

Hopefully we can keep the same fonts and character as at present. :)

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A basic PR you used to validate and generate the screenshots is perfect.

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