On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote:
> <quote name="Federico Leva (Nemo)" date="2014-02-15" time="22:52:31 +0100"> > > And surely, before WMF/"MediaWiki" tell the world that no free fonts > > of good quality exist, there will be some document detailing exactly > > why and based on what arguments/data/research the numerous free > > alternatives were all rejected? Free fonts developers are an > > invaluable resource for serving Wikimedia projects' content in all > > languages, we shouldn't carelessly slap them in their face. > > I just skimmed the entire thread again, and yes, this has been requested > a few times but no one from the WMF Design team has responded with that > analysis (or if would respond with an analysis). The first time it was > requested the person was told to ask the Design list, then the next > message CC'd the design list, but no response on that point. > > I don't see much on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh > nor it's talk page. Nor > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Typography > There wasn't an answer because the question is a fundamental misunderstanding of the way CSS works and options that are within our reach. The question isn't "are there good free fonts?" the question is "can we deliver good free fonts to all users?". I'll try to help the UX team document the answer better. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
