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Due to the data privacy reason T240978#5892503, we are not able to download font from googleapis

  • Check the default font in device

Design Style Guide for Typography : https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/visual-style_typography.html

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Are you aware of https://tools.wmflabs.org/fontcdn/ ? Also see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/65/toolforge_provides_proxied_mirrors_of_cdnjs_and_now_fontcdn_for_your_usage_and_user-privacy/
(Disclaimer: Not sure that solves the privacy issue and if tools.wmflabs.org would be considered safe enough.)

@Aklapper That's very useful and Thanks for the prompt input! This is definitely good news for us if this is available and doesn't against our privacy.

App looks fine to me in default device font. One thing which I noticed that Jio devices have bad display quality in comparison to banana phone, text looks sharper in the banana phone than jio. I don't think it has anything to do with the app. I did load a couple of articles in other Indian languages too and everything seems fine to me

hueitan moved this task from Product sign off to Dev on the Inuka-Team (Kanban) board.
hueitan moved this task from Dev to Ready for Dev on the Inuka-Team (Kanban) board.

Moving back to Dev as it requires dev

After talking with Design, this can wait until the new onboarding and new main screen are done with more tests on different devices.

Note: this would likely be called out as an issue in T240869, when that is completed. We currently anticipate our vendor to begin the security review around March 16th, 2020.

the source has been removed in the pr https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-kaios/pull/167, so no more download in the app.