Use a 'default' instead of a 'decorative' font family#1174
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On Unix systems, the wxWidgets / wxPython font family `wx.DECORATIVE` defaults to Impact [^1]. For a more suitable UI font, this is changed to `wx.DEFAULT`. On modern macOS and Windows systems, this is expected to have minimal impact (no pun intended), as `wx.DECORATIVE` already seems to be equivalent to `wx.DEFAULT` on both platforms [^2][^3]. Even with its original intent, the 'decorative' font family is not a good match for the UI, as it corresponds to the `fantasy` font family in CSS, that mostly includes gimmicky fonts like Papyrus or Jokerman [^4]. [^1]: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/18da5b8269706472f6c0fa09dcbae605a477da19/src/unix/fontutil.cpp#L274-L277 [^2]: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/18da5b8269706472f6c0fa09dcbae605a477da19/src/osx/carbon/font.cpp#L218-L220 [^3]: wxWidgets/wxWidgets#24178 [^4]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130126125901/http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-Fantasy.shtml
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On Unix systems, the wxWidgets / wxPython font family
wx.DECORATIVEdefaults to Impact 1. For a more suitable UI font, this is changed towx.DEFAULT.On modern macOS and Windows systems, this is expected to have minimal impact (no pun intended), as
wx.DECORATIVEalready seems to be equivalent towx.DEFAULTon both platforms 23.Even with its original intent, the 'decorative' font family is not a good match for the UI, as it corresponds to the
fantasyfont family in CSS, that mostly includes gimmicky fonts like Papyrus or Jokerman 4.Resolves #1172
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https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/18da5b8269706472f6c0fa09dcbae605a477da19/src/unix/fontutil.cpp#L274-L277 ↩
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/18da5b8269706472f6c0fa09dcbae605a477da19/src/osx/carbon/font.cpp#L218-L220 ↩
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/issues/24178 ↩
https://web.archive.org/web/20130126125901/http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-Fantasy.shtml ↩