Recently, <kbd> tags on the trilogy sites and I think Apple as well were updated to look less ugly.
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I am in favor of less ugly. Can we have it to match our sweet new design?
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Can we have <kbd> to be made to look more like arcade buttons? Most of the time it's used it's for a single character at a time.
E.g.:
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This would fit well with our overall 16-bit-esque theme– Robotnik ModCommented Mar 3, 2015 at 2:49
Down with the new-style <kbd>! Keep the old one! Or at least keep the serif font!
The biggest appeal of the kbd tag is that it's completely unambiguous: press 1, then I, then l, and Dwarf Fortress will do something clever and/or terrible. Switching that to a sans-serif font makes those keys unclear, and <kbd> should be utterly beyond confusion.
I would be fine with changing the border around the letter to take up a bit less space, but using a sans-serif font is just wrong. We theoretically could force all letters to upper-case, but it's still going to be ambiguous when an "I" shows up by itself in an answer, and there's no other hint that all keyboard entries are upper-case.
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Ah, I now get what you mean, so I have removed my downvote. Ran some tests on Meta.SE if anyone's interested (feel free to edit and play around): meta.stackexchange.com/a/250518/179041– Robotnik ModCommented Mar 3, 2015 at 1:26
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Dunno if they updated the font, but on mobile at least, I 1 and l are all showing up with serif font– Robotnik ModCommented May 18, 2015 at 23:39
But then we would not have an awesome KBD castle. And that would be WRONG.
answered May 9, 2012 at 19:12
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9@JuanManuel This is Gaming, we don't take kindly to fun around here.– a catCommented May 11, 2012 at 7:56
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[status-declined], and the two answers are joke answers at best... Do we need to poke some people over at SE?