Thanks for making us aware of this, Brad. I've immediately removed an
unneeded use in Translate and removed that entry from the list.

One instance remains in the header "monospace hack, could probably be
changed to "monospace, monospace"". Can you please elaborate?

Cheers!


On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]
> wrote:

> I came across Gerrit change 79948[1] today, which makes "VectorBeta"
> use a pile of non-free fonts (with one free font thrown in at the end
> as a sop). Is this really the direction we want to go, considering
> that in many other areas we prefer to use free software whenever we
> can?
>
> Looking around a bit, I see this has been discussed in some "back
> corners"[2][3] (no offense intended), but not on this list and I don't
> see any place where free versus non-free was actually discussed rather
> than being brought up and then seemingly ignored.
>
> In case it helps, I did some searching through mediawiki/core and
> WMF-deployed extensions for font-family directives containing non-free
> fonts. The results are at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Anomie/font-family (use of
> non-staff account intentional).
>
>
>  [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79948
>  [2]:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Typography#Arial.3F_18136
>  [3]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44394
>
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