Browser set monospace font is completely ignored by Github

[RaphGL]

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Despite having set the monospace in both Chromium and Firefox, the font is not set on the website. This is an accessibility problem as the default font set by GitHub makes it very hard for me to read the page without straining my eyes.
I've looked around and GitHub uses ui-monospace as their default, but changing it to monospace instead would allow people to override the monospace font in their browser settings as they see fit.

[devrose04]

Thank you

[Calc-oholic]

Isn't possible.

[RaphGL]

can u further elaborate what you mean here?

[khaledh]

Can we re-open this? What's the purpose of being in control of fonts used by the browser when websites just ignore them?

Aside: Does anyone know how to map ui-monospace in macOS to a different font? I believe it defaults to SF Mono, but I'd like to use JetBrains Mono instead.

[RaphGL]

I closed the discussion myself as github seems to not listen nor care about their users.
Just see how they still don't support IPv6, a lot of people have to waste extra money doing proxies to be able to use git with github on IPv6 only VPS or just pay extra for IPv4.

I'm gonna re-open this at your request but I've personally lost hope.
Also as a workaround what I've been doing is I've been setting the minimum monospace font size to be bigger so the code on github is more readable to me:

[khaledh]

Thanks @RaphGL. I hope someone listens.

Meanwhile, I used an extension to override the font with custom css. It's a shame we have to jump through those hoops for some of the very basic features.

[khaledh]

For anyone wondering what my custom css is:

tt, pre, code, samp,
.text-mono,
.react-code-text
.blob-code-inner {
    font-family: monospace;
}