Script build for Google Fonts API (NAME table updates)

[davelab6]

The NAME table has a few things that I would like to request changing before the next build.

• [ ] First is what I consider to be improvements that may be good to do for all possible contexts, by removing Regular from all 'family' and 'fullname' name records (both nameID="1" and 4)

eg in fonts/Bungee_TTF/Bungee-Regular.ttf it is Bungee Regular and should be Bungee

(I noticed that in Bungee-Regular.ttf the family name being Bungee Regular meant the windows full name became Bungee Regular Regular, which is a bit odd - all should just be Bungee :)

• [ ] Second, is adjusting the "Bungee Singles" fonts to make them fit snugly into the Google Fonts API. There are 5 files:
• fonts/Bungee_TTF/Bungee-Regular.ttf
• fonts/Bungee_TTF/Bungee-Hairline.ttf
• fonts/Bungee_TTF/Bungee-Inline.ttf
• fonts/Bungee_TTF/Bungee-Outline.ttf
• fonts/Bungee_TTF/Bungee-Shade.ttf

The Google Web Fonts API will present these as each a Regular (400 roman) instance for 5 different families, so the filenames should instead be,

• fonts/Bungee_TTF/Bungee-Regular.ttf
• fonts/Bungee_TTF/BungeeHairline-Regular.ttf
• fonts/Bungee_TTF/BungeeInline-Regular.ttf
• fonts/Bungee_TTF/BungeeOutline-Regular.ttf
• fonts/Bungee_TTF/BungeeShade-Regular.ttf
• [ ] Modulo the above point about Bungee-Regular.ttf, the nameID="1" values are all correct, but the PS name records (nameID="6") should be the same as the filenames above, and Typographic Family Name records (nameID="16" and 17) should be removed.

[davelab6]

I just tested the above (by hotfixing TTFs with TTX) and Illustrator is smart enough to silently match BungeeShade-Regular.ttf to Bungee-Shade.ttf so no existing documents should break.

From a UX perspective it means that the styles appear not as styles within a "Bungee" family, but as separate styles in the family list; while this isn't as tidy, I think this might be a better UX because the styles dropdown doesn't have a rendered preview while the family dropdown does. Here's InDesign:

Here's Illustrator:

[djrrb]

Dave and I just spoke about this, and it looks like we are going to leave the names as-is in the sources, and let these fields be changed for the web fonts in production.

I will need to rebuild the desktop fonts, and incorporate the google web fonts along with the other web fonts. I made a separate to-do for this here: https://github.com/djrrb/Bungee/issues/44

If there are no objections, I'll close this issue.

[davelab6]

Maybe leave it open until there's a script to automate

[djrrb]

Sounds good!

[justvanrossum]

I'm assuming this has been resolved with the v2.000 release.