Maniphest T419644

tokens: Move font family definition to skin.variables Less file
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Description

Background

MinervaNeue sets OS specific font stack for historic reasons in minerva.variables.less and not mediawiki.skin.variables.less.

Goal

Use consistent token overrides in the right place. This is an indirect predecessor to T418504 to remove confusion and technical debt.
Additionally remove the non-working font-family-sans definition as there are no applications.

Acceptance criteria for done

Set @font-family-base in mediawiki.skin.variables.less
Remove @font-family-sans

QA

Is the font family on Minerva the same as in production, and also are components untouched in their font families? There should really be no visible rendering difference.

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	tokens: Use skin variables for font family definition	mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue	master	+14 -18

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		DTorsani-WMF	T423941 [EPIC] Visual Design Language
		Open	BUG REPORT	DTorsani-WMF	T418504 Use native font families by default in Codex, Vector 2022, and Minerva Neue
		Resolved		Jdlrobson-WMF	T419644 tokens: Move font family definition to skin.variables Less file

Event Timeline

Volker_E created this task.Mar 11 2026, 3:35 AM

Change #1250192 had a related patch set uploaded (by VolkerE; author: VolkerE):

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] tokens: Use skin variables for font family definition

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1250192

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 11 2026, 3:42 AM

Change #1250192 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] tokens: Use skin variables for font family definition

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1250192

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 11 2026, 2:32 PM

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.20; 2026-03-17).Mar 11 2026, 3:01 PM

Volker_E added a project: Technical-Debt.Mar 11 2026, 6:01 PM

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Volker_E claimed this task.Mar 11 2026, 7:10 PM

Volker_E triaged this task as Medium priority.

Volker_E added a project: Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 16 [Q3 Mar 10 - Mar 23]).

Volker_E set the point value for this task to 1.

Volker_E moved this task from Ready to Needs QA on the Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 16 [Q3 Mar 10 - Mar 23]) board.

Volker_E updated the task description. (Show Details)

Volker_E removed Volker_E as the assignee of this task.Mar 11 2026, 7:12 PM

Bugreporter2 moved this task from Unsorted to Add / Create on the Technical-Debt board.Mar 25 2026, 5:51 AM

Bugreporter2 moved this task from Add / Create to Needs refactor on the Technical-Debt board.

Can skip QA.

Jdrewniak added a project: Essential-Work.Apr 7 2026, 2:17 PM

Jdlrobson-WMF added a project: Readers Essential Work.Apr 7 2026, 3:59 PM