How to change the Japanese and Chinese fonts on memrise

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edit: added a modified script, for those not liking the new fonts。。。。。I wonder if the team would ever ask learners of Chinese and Japanese their opinion on readable, learning enhancing (i.e. large enough), lean fonts! until now… is anybody from the team learing these languages, I mean, really learning them???

in your “stylus” (user styles) extension add something like this - and modify the fonts to your liking. I’ve modified a bit some userstyle for userstyles.org ot make the characters straight and elegant. The script works fine if you have to type Chinese… the new modification made by memrise in Mandarin/Nippon fonts make the courses where one is prompted with Chinese and has to answer Egnlish/German etc quite ugly… the result is something like this now (still have to thinker the pinyin and attr. thou…):
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.val, .things, .qquestion {
font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times,“SimSun”,Sans-Serif !important;

}

table.pool-things tr.thing, table.level-things tr.thing {
font-family: “Helvetica Neue”,Helvetica,Arial,“SimSun”,Sans-Serif !important;
}

body.level-view .things, .layout.level-view .things {
font-family: “Helvetica Neue”,Helvetica,Arial,“SimSun”,Sans-Serif !important;
}

body.level-view .thing .col_a, .layout.level-view .thing .col_a {
font-weight: normal !important;
}

.thing-show .row .row-value {
font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times,“SimSun”,Sans-Serif !important;
}

.question-row .extra-info {
font-family: “Helvetica Neue”,Helvetica,Arial,“SimSun”,Sans-Serif !important;
font-weight: 300 !important;
}

.garden-box .typing-wrapper .typing-type-here {
font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times,“SimSun”,Sans-Serif !important;
}

.mem .mem-middle {
font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times,“SimSun”,Sans-Serif !important;
}

.forum-thread .detail p {
font-family: “Helvetica Neue”,Helvetica,Arial,“SimSun”,Sans-Serif !important;
}

.forum-thread ul.comments > li .comment-body p {
font-family: “Helvetica Neue”,Helvetica,Arial,“SimSun”,Sans-Serif !important;
}

i have some other alternatives using the Maboroshi no Nijimi Minchoscript for Japanese, which script looks extremely readable and lean: Maboroshi no Nijimi Mincho - Free Japanese Font - Free Japanese Font

(original message: is this just me, or…?! this is a capture from a course of mine, so no chance that someone changed the columns without me pnowing (probably…) etcetc

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btw dear team, the pinyin looks now like this (I deactivated all my scripts before, of course)

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and course prompt Mandarin-answer English somthing like this:

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the result of your changes, especially in the second case, is not very readable…

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Did something happen to the fonts? The cursive Chinese font was so nice. Is there a way to go back? I don’t mind using the Stylish extension.

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Chrome:

ch

Firefox:

ff

The firefox one is kinda cute…
Why they keep changing things, whyyyyy!

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えぢｔ＞

darn… edit:

from he other thread a script line to revert to cursive

(@xj47
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Adding the simple Stylish script:

.garden-box *:lang(ja) { font-family: Meiryo; }

changed the font back to what I had before.
Just leaving this here in case it’s useful to someone else.)

you can add the line with either stylish or stylus as “firefox add”

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I don’t understand it… for years now they disrupt users’ learning with impromptu changes

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Hydroptere, thank you for the help. I used the CSS you provided with the font KaiTi, which is available on Windows 7. I find it particularly pleasant to look at :).

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glad it worked!

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I found a solution that is better than messing with CSS.

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excuse me, but what do you think your extension is??? at least with userstyles one can see the css, so one can conclude by herself that there is nothing fishy in it

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don’t mind that old hag, she has issues with everything and everybody! good job!

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@Hydroptere please explain to us what each line of the CSS you are referring to does. That way we can also conlude that there is nothing fishy about it.

For example, can you please explain the following code? Surely you understand how it works since you are confident that it is not malicious.

table.pool-things tr.thing, table.level-things tr.thing {
font-family: “Helvetica Neue”,Helvetica,Arial,“SimSun”,Sans-Serif !important;
}

Also, please provide a legitimate example of your concerns with the extensions that I have used.

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anyhow thanks, it is ok; the new Chinese font - as set by the team it is rather ok, I disliked profoundly the old cursive fonts, so it is still an improvement. The pinyin is rather unnerving (disturbs the eye in a not insignificant measure; too many fonts on a page ruin reading). I’ll see what I’ll do about this issue later, now I have to water zillion items. Because of these changes my learning was disrupted. Again! I don’t even want to look at my Thai course…

for the japanese font, I am fiddlig another script now, as I dislike the learning page as it is now and have to use there as well my old “chinese fonts” script in order to see properly the Japanese

happy learning

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