Plex 7.0 (next) - Githubissues

vpicone commented 3 years ago

Goals

Able to include any Plex language for internationalization
Able to include any additional font weights for a font family
Able to include any additional font style variants for a font family
Migrate to Dart Sass

Requirements

There is a sensible fallback that uses a CDN by default
Able to self-host font files

To-do

[x] Update Hebrew and Arabic to use latest PostScript/Font names
[x] Add tooling for easier/automated pre-release and release procedures
[x] Utilize Sass modules to permit modular builds based on application requirements (weights, languages, font-face features) for Carbon languages +1 non-standard variant
[x] Remove ie11 font files (eot/ttf/otf)
[ ] Add semver to font files
[ ] Same as above but for all languages
[ ] Use @forward rule
[ ] Add support for subsets
[ ] Create declarations for Variable font
[ ] Document build pipeline and release procedures
[ ] Fix Korean asset zip for github release
[x] Add IBM Plex Sans JP to github for release
[x] Add IBM Plex JP sample text to IDL typetester —> “Non-Latin scripts” https://github.com/carbon-design-system/design-language-website/issues/965

johnnyshields commented 3 years ago

Is Japanese included in this release?

vpicone commented 3 years ago

@johnnyshields It's not, @BoldMonday do we have an update on the intended release date for Japanese?

mjabbink commented 3 years ago

@johnnyshields Our current estimate is sometime in June. The latter part of the month to be safe.

johnnyshields commented 3 years ago

@mjabbink thanks, we're looking forward to it at TableCheck

ghost commented 3 years ago

* Able to include any additional font weights for a font family
@vpicone It means that will be 9 weights (from 100 to 900) plus italics (18 styles)?

EatonZ commented 3 years ago

It appears that the "split" fonts are included as font files in the latest next, but they aren't declared in the CSS/SCSS. Is this because it's not done or are split fonts being phased out for 6.0?

elyran2 commented 3 years ago

when will Hebrew be fixed? it's been almost a year since I reported kerning issues in Hebrew and someone said that it is already fixed but no new version is published... why wait on it?

vpicone commented 3 years ago

@johnnyshields Correction, it looks like we'll be able to include IBM Plex Sans JP in this release.

mjabbink commented 3 years ago

@elyran2 The Hebrew fixes will be resolved in the next release. @vpicone can provide a more accurate timeline. There are many updates but a few in Arabic and Hebrew are at the top of the list.

kifzuka commented 3 years ago

Add font ligature please, it's very nice to code with

mjabbink commented 3 years ago

@kifzuka

BoldMonday commented 3 years ago

Add font ligature please, it's very nice to code with

Coding ligatures have been discussed in https://github.com/IBM/plex/issues/63

kifzuka commented 3 years ago

@kifzuka

Ligatures for coding, programming like 'Fira code'

vpicone commented 2 years ago

@mjabbink @katie-A-IBM my plan is to have the Japanese files released in a beta by Friday with an official release by the end of next week.

I'll update the video and remove the Noto card ASAP.

mjabbink commented 2 years ago

Thanks for update @vpicone I already removed the Noto Card https://github.com/carbon-design-system/design-language-website/pull/972

The only think left is to add the Plex JP in the type tester section with sample text and placement all provided here https://github.com/carbon-design-system/design-language-website/issues/965

EatonZ commented 2 years ago

Hi - any comment on my question above yet?

vpicone commented 2 years ago

Hi - any comment on my question above yet?

Yes, the styles will use subsets. You can see subsets in the list of items at the top of the issue.

EatonZ commented 2 years ago

@vpicone Thanks, didn't know those were called "subsets".

mjabbink commented 2 years ago

@vpicone Let’s add the Plex Mono update to GitHub.

BoldMonday commented 2 years ago

@mjabbink @vpicone And Plex Sans Hebrew + Plex Sans Arabic updates please.

mjabbink commented 2 years ago

Those are not released either! Oh wow. OK, we gotta get that done.

@alisonjoseph We defiantly need to get these in this sprint.

vpicone commented 2 years ago

@mjabbink Hebrew and Arabic are released under the next branch: https://github.com/IBM/plex/releases/tag/v6.0.0-next.6

They require breaking changes due to the change in family name.

dayfuaim commented 2 years ago

Any plans for old style numbers (onum) and caps from small caps (c2sc)?

mjabbink commented 2 years ago

@dayfuaim OSF and SCs are maybe future items but for now, those are not on the priority list. The original intent was to not include those but have always considered those for potential future enhancements.

dayfuaim commented 2 years ago

@mjabbink Got it. But waiting for them to appear. :)

mjabbink commented 2 years ago

@vpicone status on this?

subnut commented 2 years ago

Implement #401 please. I find markdown's headings like ##### very hard to read due to the separation in between.

mjabbink commented 2 years ago

@vpicone Any updates for this issue?

barmadrid commented 2 years ago

Would love to hear the progress on this!

Hackgets commented 2 years ago

I am not a programmer, so I am waiting for a Japanese monospace font that is suitable for general use and still highly legible. That's why I have high hopes for IBM Plex.

In open source projects, it is unavoidable that Japanese language support is lacking. This is because there are few Japanese contributors, and I am ashamed of that.

Yoshiko321 commented 2 years ago

We are observing an issue where non-breaking space ( ) becomes visible as ” □ ” when accessing from iPhone iOS 15.4 browser. This is for IBM Plex Sans JP font.

This is not the case for iOS 15.3
This phenomena is not observed on US page for non-breaking space

Might you be able to help? @BoldMonday

BoldMonday commented 2 years ago

@Yoshiko321 I suspect this is a text encoding problem in 15.4 instead of a font problem. I'm afraid we're unable to help here.

XenBG commented 2 years ago

@vpicone

The Bulgarian Minister of e-Government Bozhidar Bojanov has launched an initiative for Bulgarian institutions to use fonts that support Bulgarian Cyrillic. Source: https://www.facebook.com/bozhidar.bozhanov/posts/pfbid036YFX1SuEjFv4Mzg4WGfdnmCSG6yKT5f4wBokqjZigxCER6tkFdmrxzsD6xeedLBzl

The IBM Plex font is widely used in the Bulgarian web and I suggest you add support for the Bulgarian Cyrillic Script so that everyone can take advantage of it. You can read more about the loclBGR glyphs with examples and info on this article - https://www.lettersoup.de/what-shall-be-done-for-bulgarian-cyrillic-loclbgr/. More detailed information can be found here - https://www.fontfabric.com/blog/rounded-bulgarian-cyrillic-narrative-and-comparison/.

I will be more than grateful if you consider my proposal!

bg-ru-cyrillic

Skr-ZERO commented 1 year ago

Seems like version 7.0 still doesn’t support Chinese… How many Chinese characters will be included in IBM Plex Sans SC & TC and when will they come out?

mjabbink commented 1 year ago

@Skr-ZERO Plex Sans SC & TC will be released in 2023. Roughly 30,000 glyphs.

jerviscui commented 1 year ago

Very much looking forward to supporting the Chinese.

Marcus98T commented 1 year ago

Is there any reason why Plex Sans TC and SC got delayed yet again to 2024? The Plex website still says 2023.

I don't want to speculate, but manually drawing new Chinese glyphs and extensive quality checks may be one of the reasons?

cssobral2013 commented 1 year ago

Are Greek/Cyrillic support for Variable planned?

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