Firstly, we’re celebrating a year of Backpack’s website 🥳 and a year of these updates. If you’ve got any feedback, reach out to Adam or James. This month was a short one. Here’s the key stuff.

New documentation

Localisation just dropped

Check out our latest tips, rules and tools on how to build a product that suits our global travellers' needs. We’ve got guidance for engineers, product designers and content designers covering everything from best practices for string creation, how to work with placeholders to the cultural nuances of emojis, plus much more...

Brand World

Rather than rebuild 300+ pages into this website, we’ve linked the most up-to-date PDFs into our Foundations. If you need more information about our brand, ask in #design-general.

Fallback fonts

To maintain consistency across all markets we’ve updated our font fallback choices. These were carefully selected to closely match the visual balance achieved with our type-scale rules when using Skyscanner Relative and Larken for Latin-based character sets.

New components

Image Gallery

Released for Android (shortly following on iOS). You can choose between Slideshow and Grid view with a range of optional properties. Web still needs a contribution 🙏