1641651 - MultiStage about:welcome should be using Metropolis font-family

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Messaging System, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

Using metropolis font-family will help maintain design consistency with the download pages on firefox.com

https://mozilla.design/firefox/typography/

Comment 1

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

After some trying things and discussion, I'm thinking we should probably drop this bug. It was brought up to me this morning that a lot of our localized non-english pages don't use Metropolis anyway, because it doesn't include non-latin glyphs - so all those pages fall back to Helvetica. (Even weirder, it'll only fall back for glyphs that aren't present, so we'll have different fonts within words in some locales.)
On top of that, we may run in to build size issues once we bundle the fonts.

It seems like our best bet for consistency would be to use the next closest font (Helvetica) across all the about:welcome pages, so that we don't get mismatched glyphs with localization.

Comment 2

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

Attachment: English download page, with Metropolis

Comment 3

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

Attachment: Vietnamese download page, in Helvetica

Comment 4

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

Aaron, do you think Helvetica would be the right choice of fallback here, or is there something else we could pick that's closer? (Bearing in mind that non-latin locales will fall back to Helvetica anyway.)

Comment 5

[Aaron Benson]

Just so I understand, is the fallback font for non-latin locales or are we saying we'd use the fallback font everywhere?

Comment 6

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

The suggestion was to use the fallback font (Helvetica) for all the in-product (i.e. about:welcome) pages in all locales, since that will match the localized download pages.

Comment 7

[Aaron Benson]

In that case we should do what we do for other in-content pages and for menus and fall back to the system font. San Francisco for macOS and Segoe for Windows.

Comment 8

[Aaron Benson]

FWIW - I hear that Fenix is shipping with fonts and there's no licensing issue here. Is there concern around file size?

Comment 9

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

(In reply to Aaron Benson from comment #8)

FWIW - I hear that Fenix is shipping with fonts and there's no licensing issue here. Is there concern around file size?

That was one of the big concerns, yeah. I'm not sure who would make decisions about how much is too much, though.

Comment 10

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

(In reply to Aaron Benson from comment #8)

FWIW - I hear that Fenix is shipping with fonts and there's no licensing issue here. Is there concern around file size?

Will do, thanks!

Comment 11

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

It looks like those font are what we have implemented by default, so we're good :)