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   Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 12:46:48 JST Marcin Wichary

   Okay, kind of an embarrassing question.

   “font-family: system” CSS declaration in websites on my computer in both Chrome and Safari renders in… Tahoma? Why?

   I know “system-ui” is the way to go, but I cannot explain what I’m seeing and it bothers me.

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:07:07 JST Marcin Wichary

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     This is an example. I verified it’s “system” and specifically “system” that makes it go to Tahoma?!

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:07:07 JST jwz

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     @mwichary On my Mac Safari, "body { font-family: system }" gives me Times and "system, -apple-system" gives me AppleSystemUIFont, which means "system" is an unregistered name, so something on your machine has registered Tahoma under the name "system". Maybe "system_profiler SPFontsDataType" will tell you?

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:22:36 JST jwz

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     @mwichary LOL that's hilarious. I will stop messing with Font Book now :-)

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:22:37 JST Marcin Wichary

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     Not just me, but still perplexing? https://github.com/csstools/system-font-css/issues/22

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:22:37 JST Marcin Wichary

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     Ugh, I’m an idiot. Elsewhere in CSS on that page, “system” was redefined to point to a local Tahoma. It didn’t occur to me to look for that.

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:24:01 JST Marcin Wichary

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     • jwz

     @jwz I like that we went to like DEFCON 2 already.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:24:01 JST jwz

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     @mwichary It's like that old joke about "I keep a loaded gun next to my printer in case it makes a noise I don't recognize" but for TTF files.