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Switch the UI font to Geist and give text more room - #556

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Requested by Oliver · project thread

The UI looked cramped and dated in Helvetica Neue. After a side-by-side comparison of candidate fonts on the real screens, Oliver picked Geist.

What changes

  • Fonts: Geist and Geist Mono (OFL) are bundled through @fontsource-variable/geist and @fontsource-variable/geist-mono, so every computer gets the same faces instead of Helvetica Neue, Arial or whatever is installed. Helvetica Neue stays as the fallback.

  • Type scale in App.css:

    • heading letter-spacing −0.04em → −0.02em
    • body 13/20 → 14/22 px
    • controls 13 → 14 px
    • caption line height 16 → 18 px
    • page title line height 34 → 36 px

    Phone sizes are unchanged.

  • Section labels: sidebar headings (Workspace, Favourites and so on), settings nav labels and the sign-in eyebrow move from mono to Geist at weight 500.

  • Mono: the pipeline editor's five hard-coded ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, … stacks now use --font-mono, which is Geist Mono.

  • Charts: the ECharts theme sets the same font on its canvas text.

Checks

  • make check passes: lint, knip, unit tests and build.
  • The mocked Playwright journeys (mocked-ui) pass locally: 30 of 30.

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https://claude.ai/code/session_01EyKuEbG4TTaobpGVeRkiZu

Bundle Geist and Geist Mono through Fontsource so every computer renders
the same faces instead of Helvetica Neue, Arial or whatever is installed.
Loosen the type scale: headings at -0.02em instead of -0.04em, body and
controls at 14px on 22px lines, captions on 18px lines, page titles on
36px lines. The pipeline editor's hard-coded system mono stacks now use
--font-mono, and charts draw their labels in Geist too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EyKuEbG4TTaobpGVeRkiZu
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Sidebar headings, settings nav labels and the sign-in eyebrow read as a
terminal next to Geist; they now use the UI font at weight 500.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EyKuEbG4TTaobpGVeRkiZu
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