Merge pull request #2543 from matrix-org/matthew/cyrillic

Matthew/cyrillic

res/css/views/elements/_RichText.scss

@@ -79,11 +79,15 @@
 
 .mx_Markdown_ITALIC {
     font-style: italic;
+/*
+    // interestingly, *not* using the explicit italic font
+    // variant seems yield better results.
 
     // compensate for Nunito italics being terrible
     // https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1726
     transform: skewX(-14deg);
     display: inline-block;
+*/
 }
 
 .mx_Markdown_CODE {

res/css/views/rooms/_EventTile.scss

@@ -453,12 +453,17 @@ limitations under the License.
     display: inline ! important;
 }
 
+/*
+// actually, removing the Italic TTF provides
+// better results seemingly
+
 // compensate for Nunito italics being terrible
 // https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1726
 .mx_EventTile_content .markdown-body em {
     transform: skewX(-14deg);
     display: inline-block;
 }
+*/
 
 /* end of overrides */