# A change to iNaturalist fonts **URL:** \ **Category:** News and Updates\ **Tags:** web, android-app, seek\ **Created:** [May 29, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909 "2024-05-29T17:37:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eyekosaeder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/eyekosaeder/32/66699_2.png) [@eyekosaeder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/eyekosaeder)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/21 "2024-05-29T20:17:03Z")
> [@tiwane](#): > > I advocated for Comic Sans, but got vetoed. 🤷‍♂️ Comic Sans is temporary, Papyrus is forever! Funnily enough I hadn’t noticed any change even though I spend a few hours on the website every day. :D It only saw the difference after reading this post. ---
**Author:** ![insectobserver123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/insectobserver123/32/36213_2.png) [@insectobserver123](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/insectobserver123)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/22 "2024-05-29T20:19:22Z")
I think the old font was better, this font makes italics look more like cursive, making scientific names significantly less readable in my opinion. I can still tell what they say, but unfamiliar scientific names take slightly longer to read (adds up when looking at many obs in a day), and I wonder if this would create issues for people with visual impairments? ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/23 "2024-05-29T20:41:44Z")
The new one is smaller (and prettier) but I have to keep reminding myself - still on iNat - it just looks … different. First problem is with German Umlauts in this comment - very broken [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11194093](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11194093) From Jan 2016 - so perhaps it was always broken, and not due to the changed font? But works just fine on the taxon page [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/58960-Plantago-coronopus](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/58960-Plantago-coronopus) Which is odd - shouldn’t it be **consistently** wrong, or right? Krähenfuß-Wegerich That double S has also tripped up the display in the comment ---
**Author:** ![naturesarchive](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/naturesarchive/32/10450_2.png) [@naturesarchive](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/naturesarchive)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/24 "2024-05-29T20:57:58Z")
I like it so far, which is surprising because UI/UX research shows that a high percentage of people dislike _any_ change at first. The research I’ve seen sometimes attributes it to loss aversion or change aversion. Some of those studies are fascinating - they control for changes in both directions (i.e. one group starts on A and changes to B; another group starts on B and changes to A) and both groups are equally supportive of their baseline and equally annoyed by the change. Of course, there are bad changes, too. But I mention this because I’ve lived through some UI changes in my professional life where we literally reverted a change because of the negative feedback, only to have to un-revert it when even more people were upset with changing back. Fun times! ---
**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/25 "2024-05-29T21:04:01Z")
I’m just glad it isn’t MS Mincho. ---
**Author:** ![eyekosaeder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/eyekosaeder/32/66699_2.png) [@eyekosaeder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/eyekosaeder)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/26 "2024-05-29T21:07:39Z")
> [@DianaStuder](#): > > First problem is with German Umlauts in this comment - very broken > [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11194093](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11194093) > From Jan 2016 - so perhaps it was always broken, and not due to the changed font? Weird. I’m German and have all the trivial names set to German and I haven’t noticed any bugs with umlauts aside from that instance you linked to. So I’d agree with that it likely wouldn’t have anything to do with the font change. ---
**Author:** ![eyekosaeder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/eyekosaeder/32/66699_2.png) [@eyekosaeder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/eyekosaeder)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/27 "2024-05-29T21:11:45Z")
Oh. I kinda like that font. Haha ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/28 "2024-05-29T21:20:55Z")
> [@DianaStuder](#): > > From Jan 2016 - so perhaps it was always broken, and not due to the changed font? Potentially. I believe it’s one of the observations we imported from iSpot, so it might be due to iSpot’s original formatting. ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/29 "2024-05-29T22:16:41Z")
It does look like that. ---
**Author:** ![millapede](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/millapede/32/74626_2.png) [@millapede](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/millapede)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/30 "2024-05-29T22:18:49Z")
I’ve been wondering this for a while stumbling across some of the observations with old formatting – did iNat acquire/combine with similar apps in its early days besides iSpot? How did that work, if you don’t mind me asking? ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/31 "2024-05-29T22:24:06Z")
I’ll respond in a message as it’s not related to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![raphetnature](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/raphetnature/32/14419_2.png) [@raphetnature](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/raphetnature)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/32 "2024-05-29T23:39:09Z")
I use the web version on a Samsung tablet, and the text is blurry on the on the info and suggestions view of all observations, on the identify page. How it should looks: ![Screenshot_20240530-111530_Ecosia](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/3/5/35b23268ab752d88515466ca41982a8b8f63b692.jpeg) How it looks on my device: ![Screenshot_20240530-111502_Ecosia](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/3/d/3de418f0cc8bdd2d4e32f30b5c174ec5cfe807c8.jpeg) Even if I zoom the text is still blurry. For now, I notice this problem only when clicking on an observation on the identify page on the info and suggestions view. The text on the annotations and data-quality views are net and clear. I didn’t had this issue with the last font. ---
**Author:** ![typophyllum](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/typophyllum/32/5148_2.png) [@typophyllum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/typophyllum)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/33 "2024-05-30T03:02:21Z")
In my recent journal posts the bold face headings are no longer bold face (difference hardly discernible). ---
**Author:** ![silversea\_starsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@silversea\_starsong](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/silversea_starsong)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/34 "2024-05-30T03:02:37Z")
My only gripe so far is that on many pages, the scientific name is bolder than the vernacular name (and I assume a similar case is reversed if you have scientific names set first). ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/7/2/729611d15c5e1f7603333bc87a77fe2ca8826d20.png) ---
**Author:** ![scarletskylight](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/scarletskylight/32/34437_2.png) [@scarletskylight](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/scarletskylight)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/35 "2024-05-30T04:08:54Z")
No Papyrus, eh? ;-) Or should I say _Cyperus papyrus_? ---
**Author:** ![apseregin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@apseregin](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/apseregin)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/36 "2024-05-30T06:08:34Z")
Yes, good point. I widely used bold font in long project’s posts to make them friendly, but now this difference diappeared. That’s truely sad. ---
**Author:** ![upollo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/upollo/32/29443_2.png) [@upollo](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/upollo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/37 "2024-05-30T07:08:37Z")
I thought there was a difference today - now I know why. I like it, I think its more legible as it’s very slightly larger, and I don’t have any issues reading/recognising the bold or italic texts. And +++ for open source! ---
**Author:** ![cigazze](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cigazze/32/44330_2.png) [@cigazze](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cigazze)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/38 "2024-05-30T13:18:45Z")
I like the change overall but I agree about the bold face not being discernible enough. Right now it looks like the bold face is Lato Medium (even with `font-weight: 700`, which _should_ be a bold face – medium is more like `500`) which is only slightly bolder than Lato Regular. Loading in Lato Bold (or even Lato Semibold, probably) would fix the issue. ---
**Author:** ![maryah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@maryah](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/maryah)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/39 "2024-05-30T16:27:18Z")
I don’t like it. I use reading glasses and find it harder to read. ---
**Author:** ![hawkparty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/hawkparty/32/18694_2.png) [@hawkparty](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/hawkparty)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909/40 "2024-05-30T17:22:43Z")
The font itself is fine but it appears to have thrown a lot of stuff out of alignment ever so slightly, which is causing me more problems than anything to do with the text itself. I use identify slightly zoomed out and now its very off center, I assume because the boxes are just a bit different sized now? Maybe needs a little more tweaking but is otherwise fine [Previous page](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-change-to-inaturalist-fonts/51909.md?page=3)