715875 - Confirm MetaBold font usage for elmo, l10n.mozilla.org to be

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Elmo, defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Hi John,

we'd like to clarify how to use the metabold font for elmo. Notably, in bug 661027, we start using it, also probably add a copy of it to the github repo.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=586273&action=diff#a/templates/base.html_sec1 is the code fragment.

/* MetaWebPro font family licensed from fontshop.com. WOFF-FTW! */

makes me think that we might need to be careful about adding copies of that font to our repo?

Also, is there a guideline on how we should and should not use that font? Right now, it's mostly by copying from an older version of the mozilla.org site, and I'd rather know what we're doing.

Thanks.

Comment 1

[John Slater]

> Hi John,
Hello!

> makes me think that we might need to be careful about adding copies of that
> font to our repo?
Yeah, there are some guidelines in place to keep people from downloading their own copies of the font. I'll attach to this bug.

> Also, is there a guideline on how we should and should not use that font?
> Right now, it's mostly by copying from an older version of the mozilla.org
> site, and I'd rather know what we're doing.
Am copying Steven Garrity, who has implemented this font for us a bunch of times. Steven, can you advise?

Comment 2

[John Slater]

Attachment: Web font user guide (from FontShop)

Comment 3

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

My understanding of the licensing (which is limited - I'm a designer/designer, not a lawyer) is that we can use the font one any mozilla properties, and that we must take reasonable measures to make sure it is not distributed beyond that.

That said, by hosting any web font, you CAN NOT prevent people from downloading it. We do host a copy in the SVN repo, and on mozilla.org, though non mozilla.org URLs trying to load the font from mozilla.org will get a 404.

I would recommend you load the font from the mozilla.org/img/fonts/ dir, so we don't end up with too many copies floating around, but I don't think there's anything explicit prohibiting you from storing it in github.

Also worth noting, while the Meta font family remains in use for the Firefox logo/wordmarks, most of work, including the coming redesign of mozilla.org, is using the Open Sans font family.

Comment 4

[John Slater]

Great summary - thanks Steven.