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The package of IBM’s typeface, IBM Plex.
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[Feature Request] [Plex Sans Hebrew] Add a variation: Regular 400 *Italic* #451

Closed DoronBrayer closed 2 years ago

DoronBrayer commented 2 years ago

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Sans+Hebrew I really like this font (good job!), but there is no Regular 400 Italic, which is a bummer.

mjabbink commented 2 years ago

@DoronBrayer Italics in Plex Hebrew were not developed in any weight.

DoronBrayer commented 2 years ago

@mjabbink Obviously. That is exactly why it's a feature request.

BoldMonday commented 2 years ago

@DoronBrayer The concept of a "roman" style versus an "italic" style is completely Latin-centric. During the development of Hebrew, Arabic, Devanagari, Thai, Hangul and Japanese the Plex team decided not to impose Latin-centric principles to scripts where they don’t naturally belong to.

mjabbink commented 2 years ago

The list is long for additions and enhancements that serve broader use cases and users and italics for Hebrew does not fit our current criteria. We have very limited resources dedicated to Plex. If it is determined that a slanted Hebrew is needed by a very broad set of Plex Hebrew users we might consider to add as a future enhancement. Currently we have a long list of priorities which include Plex Math, Plex Chinese (TC/SC) and hopefully Plex Kannada in 2023.

DoronBrayer commented 2 years ago

@BoldMonday Thanks for the explanation, but I don't understand it. There are many Hebrew fonts with Italic style, for instance: Rubik Tinos

DoronBrayer commented 2 years ago

Anyway, thanks for the contribution.