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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Feb 2018
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OS: Windows , Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Roboto and Noto ought to be installed with Chrome for Windows and OS X

Reported by aa...@rangle.io, Jun 7 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
N/A

What is the expected behavior?
I want to be able to assume that Roboto is present as a system font when I ship an app, extension, or web page for Chrome. Without this, I have to balance the runtime cost of including a web font, with the benefit of having cross-platform visual consistency.

What went wrong?
I cannot expect Chrome installs on Windows and OS X to have Roboto available, thus can not use it in the way that many designers use Arial or Helvetica Neue.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 51  Channel: stable
OS Version: 
Flash Version: 

I recognize that this could be complicated.
 
Labels: M-53 OS-Mac
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Considering the above issues as Feature-Request and marking it as untriaged for further update from dev team.

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Comment 2 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jul 6 2016

Labels: -M-53 M-54 MovedFrom-53
Moving this nonessential bug to the next milestone.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Why should a *browser* be bloated with bundled fonts? It’s a browser, not an office suite.
Components: Blink>Fonts

Comment 5 by e...@chromium.org, Feb 12 2018

Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. It's not really feasible for us to bundle fonts with chrome as that would increase the binary size of the installer substantially. 

We are looking at ways of reducing the cost of using web fonts but bundling sadly isn't really practical.

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