#29936: Improved font customization in the admin
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Reporter: Antonio Cavedoni | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: contrib.admin | Version: 2.1
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 1
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 1 |
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The admin is pretty flexible when it comes to formatting. One can extend
the `extrastyle` block in the `admin/base_site.html` (which is actually
defined in `admin/base.html`) and override / inject whatever one may need
in the stylesheet. However, when it comes to customizing the fonts in the
admin, there currently is a big limitation due to the way the admin fonts
(Roboto) are being loaded. `admin/css/base.css` is referenced in a non-
extendable section of `admin/base.html`, and the first thing it does is to
`@import fonts.css`, which in turn loads a bunch of woff files for Roboto.
If one were to customize the fonts in their admin, they would still find
themselves loading these woffs, even if unused.
So I propose we remove the `@import` in `admin/css/base.css` and replace
it with a `<link rel="stylesheet">` inside an overridable block in
`base.html`. Right now I called it `adminfonts` for lack of a better name.
With that in place, a project can extend `base_site.html`, empty out
`adminfonts` and add whatever color / font customizations in the existing
`extrastyle` block.
This change would also offer some greater flexibility for users to at
least improve the situation for themselves when it comes to Django’s
default international font challenges—see issue #29122, for instance.
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