Request to use San Francisco as typeface

[chrismessina]

I noticed that Messenger on the web (in Chrome Canary anyway) is now using San Francisco (right), rather than Helvetica (left), as the typeface.

Can the mac app be changed to reflect this?

[stackptr]

To my eyes, it seems like the app that I have (0.1.12.1487384288) and the latest version in master both use San Francisco, but it's kind of hard to tell:

If there is an easy way to distinguish between the two fonts and the app is indeed using Helvetica, I can look into it further

[chrismessina]

Interesting. Messenger.com is using Helvetica, but if visit Messenger from Facebook.com (https://www.facebook.com/messages/t/messinabot) you'll see San Francisco.

[rsms]

I'm a huge fan of San Francisco, but I think it's going to be a lot less painful to simply wait for the messenger.com team to make this change. The Messenger for Mac app's user agent contains "like Safari/VERSION" in order for Facebook to deliver the correct JS (their server will sometimes deliver different code depending on the user agent) — point being that simply "spoofing" the user agent won't magically make the SF font appear (it might though), but will probably break some other parts of the app.

Alternatively we could inject CSS to override the font choices of messenger.com, but that is error prone (unless by some magical reason there's just a single level of font declaration in the stylesheets of messenger.com — someone feel free to investigate this :) )

[chrismessina]

Good points. Fair enough! On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:49 PM Rasmus [email protected] wrote:

I'm a huge fan of San Francisco, but I think it's going to be a lot less painful to simply wait for the messenger.com team to make this change. The Messenger for Mac app's user agent contains "like Safari/VERSION" in order for Facebook to deliver the correct JS (their server will sometimes deliver different code depending on the user agent) — point being that simply "spoofing" the user agent won't magically make the SF font appear (it might though), but will probably break some other parts of the app.

Alternatively we could inject CSS to override the font choices of messenger.com, but that is error prone (unless by some magical reason there's just a single level of font declaration in the stylesheets of messenger.com — someone feel free to investigate this :) )

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