Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Make available Montserrat font for Wikimedia pages to use

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Hi @Susannaanas, I hope you're well! I just want to confirm that I understand the scope and goal of this wish correctly. I believe you are requesting that the opensource font Montserrat be added to Meta-wiki in a way that allows you/anyone to use it via pages that use the styles in {{GLAM/style.css}} (for example). E.g. I've got Montserrat installed locally, therefor I can test that this would enable changing pages like so phab:F57563125 (before/after screenshot). You want to do it in a way that avoids the problems we ran into in the past such as phab:T225511. Please confirm that is accurate?

I'll also note that I believe this request/topic is more complex than it might appear, because it involves the "webfonts" feature in web-browsers, which inherently require downloading (for any readers that don't have the typeface preinstalled), and thus it can result in a "flash of unstyled content" which we usually try to avoid. There are more notes and related links in this comment (in particular, the "Challenges" sections in the linked page mw:Universal Language Selector/WebFonts) that help explain some of the complexities, if you/anyone wants to read more. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:56, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank You

Hello @Susannaanas, thank you for sharing your problem with the Community Wishlist. We will get back to you with further questions if need be. In the meantime, please check out the response above. –– STei (WMF) (talk) 13:35, 14 October 2024 (UTC)