1155536 - [breakdown] Tune Reader View style to better match Pocket's reader view

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Reader Mode, defect)

Description

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Our Readability-based Reader View is inherently different than Pocket's server-based article view. Different code, different output.

But it seems likely that we can adjust our Reader View style to make it more visually similar to what you'll see on Pocket.

This bug tracks that investigation, specifically with an eye towards what is feasible in 38.1.

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Michael: I think this is on your radar already?

Comment 2

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

Justin: It is.

We are currently considering a couple minor improvements that would better align our Reader Views. Will know more after our working session on Tuesday.

Improvements include

• Adopting their Type Control Menu
• Unification of theme colors (dark and sepia)
• Adopting their Typekit fonts for Latin Alphabet Markets

Comment 3

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

Michael, are you still planning to use Charis and Fira in the long term?
If so, can we start using those in the first place without doing the detour through Pockets fonts?

Also, just to have put it down somewhere: there will probably be lots of users who use reader view but not Pocket. So we probably should only use Pocket specific styles when it's actually better :)

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

With just bug 1163715 left I don't think we need to keep this open.