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Apple.SE has a much nicer design for kbd tags:

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It works much better for embedding it in other text (e.g. an explanation) as it contains a sans-serif font and a more subtle border. The style currently used on Super User disrupts the text flow and makes reading explanations that contain embedded kbd formatted keys more difficult. For example from here:

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It also uses a real font, instead of the browser's default. kbd is probably the only part of SU that uses the default font, given how often a sequence of preferred monospaced fonts is declared in the CSS file.

Please change the style for kbd tags used on SU and MSU to something similar to the style used on Apple.SE to improve legibility of posts that use this formatting.

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I'm very much for this. – Sathya♦ Jan 12 '12 at 11:39
For this topic, a separate answer to vote for doesn't make sense IMO. Please agree with my request by up voting, disagree by down voting. – Daniel Beck♦ Jan 12 '12 at 11:40
@DanielBeck Yup, it's always been like that for feature-requests on all Metas, it wouldn't make sense to answer it. – slhck♦ Jan 12 '12 at 12:37
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Here, here! The formatting of the <kbd> tag has always seemed rather atrocious. – nhinkle♦ Jan 12 '12 at 17:18
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Amusing post on meta.SO about the same topic =) – jadarnel27 Jan 12 '12 at 19:34
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@nhinkle Any idea how we can actually make this happen? Votes look pretty good so far. – Daniel Beck♦ Jan 14 '12 at 11:00
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@DanielBeck I can ask a dev to look into it. – nhinkle♦ Jan 14 '12 at 19:46
@nhinkle Could you get confirmation that they can do this, and once confirmed, we'll give it another two days or so for counterarguments to come up, then we'll see what the score is? – Daniel Beck♦ Jan 14 '12 at 19:52
@DanielBeck I can assure you that it would be possible to change, but I don't know if they'll want to invest the time. I assume it wouldn't be too hard. If you want to wait for counterarguments, let's just wait another couple days and I'll bring it to them then. – nhinkle♦ Jan 14 '12 at 20:38
Not really a counter-argument, but I don't think that we should have the same <kbd> style as Apple.SE as we deal with more than apple products. Perhaps potential styles could be answers? – soandos Jan 15 '12 at 7:24
@soandos we have the same kbd style as stack overflow, but don't deal with programming either... It doesn't need to be identical, but the fact remains the current style is horrible to read. If You find a better one than apple.se, present it here, and we can take a vote which style is the du communitys favourite. – Daniel Beck♦ Jan 15 '12 at 9:37
@DanielBeck I passed this along to the team. They sent a message to Jin (the designer for SE) to take a look at it. – nhinkle♦ Jan 19 '12 at 5:34
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I plan to make some tweaks to the KBD styling for the Trilogy site. Stay tuned. – Jin Jan 28 '12 at 23:39

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The keyboard on Apple.SE also looks much better than the one on MSO:

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Haha... it even looks better than 10.6's Keyboard Viewer. – slhck♦ Jan 13 '12 at 10:20

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