So, I don't think that we need to use Meiryo from the view of this point too. However, as you said, Yu Gothic is easier to read (especially, we don't have the too lighter rendering issue of Win10). On the other hand, the glyph is really different. However, Yu Gothic is more similar to MS PGothic's metrics (although, it's similar to Meiryo's), so, I don't think that Yu Gothic is better than Meiryo only from the view of this point. So, when they need to lay out something in tight spaces, they need to specify font-family. I don't think that it causes any trouble for designers because currently, major web browsers use MS PGothic (Firefox and Edge) and Meiryo (Chrome) and these font metrics are really different. > This difference is not small for user and designer. Meiryo has geometric typeface, and Yu Gothic has humanistic typefase. I think that those are rendered with system default UI font, not for documents.
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Which application? Applications which I usually use are only have just control widgets and menus.
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And, almost Windows Applications use Meiryo. Basically, changing font each Application causes lowering the > I think changing default font to Meiryo is Better than any other fonts from (In reply to Takashi Kita from comment #12) And everybody can use proper font without customizing the settings, especially when they're using non-Japanese Win10. Then, user can specify default font explicitly and it won't be reset by Firefox's default font setting changes. If "auto" is selected, it should be computed from default font list like "-serif.ja", which should be "Yu Gothic, Meiryo, MS PGthich" or "Meiryo, Yu Gothic, MS PGothic", and ".ja", which should be "YuMincho, MS PMincho", and ".ja", which should be "MS Gothic". I think that we need to create new setting value "auto" or something similar for default value. (Using Yu Gothic might be a good difference from Chrome, but it may be risky if web site's layout depends on Meiryo's metrics.) (Chromium doesn't use Yu Gothic because it's not rendered properly with Windows's default font renderer, but fortunately, our font renderer doesn't have this issue. But if we'd take Yu Gothic, it may be risky due to different from Chrome and Edge. If we'd use Yu Gothic, the problem #1 and #2 were solved. Meiryo doesn't have a good partner of Monospace style. Meiryo doesn't have a good partner of Serif style.ģ. However, there are some problems if we'd use Meiryo as default font:Ģ.
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However, I think that we can trust this order at least between bitmap glyph font and vector fonts. The number of people voted is 665 and it's not limited to Firefox users (due to impossible).
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> Yu Gothic: 33% No Yes Win8.1 Yes Yes N/A > MS PGothic: 19% Yes Yes ~Win7 No Yes Yes > Bitmap glyph? Sans-serif? First availabe Win10 Win8.1 Win7 Well, I asked Japanese twitter users about Firefox's default Japanese font.