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fontdasu / ShipporiAntique

SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Review new TTFs #7

Closed aaronbell closed 3 years ago

aaronbell commented 3 years ago

I've pushed an update to the repository adding a Glyphs source for the font and new python-based build process. Please review the font here and let me know if it meets your expectations 😄

The new build process takes quite some time, unfortunately, but happily I'm able to preserve the rounding as a post-production step by remote building from Glyphs.

fontdasu commented 3 years ago

I checked the file. The font style name is It was Regular, I wanted to spell R, M, D, B, E for each weight.

Shippori Antique is medium weight, so I wanted to add "M".

fontdasu commented 3 years ago

By the way, can I build with glyph files?

Can only you build?

aaronbell commented 3 years ago

Thanks! For the font style naming, I followed the Google Spec here. Is that an issue?

In order to produce the exact same ttf files that I created, you need to use the build script. However, you can certainly still build the font from the Glyphs file—in fact, the first step in the build script is to export the fonts out of Glyphs. So you'd get pretty similar results!

fontdasu commented 3 years ago

Font style names follow Google specifications.

This Shippori Antique Not regular. I want you to make it medium.

aaronbell commented 3 years ago

Hmm.

As you consider this heavier than a Regular and it is a single weight font, then it would probably make sense to name it Shippori Antique One Regular per this specification. That way, if the weight range is expanded in the future, it won't cause problems. Let me think about this.

fontdasu commented 3 years ago

By the way, I would like to make a Shippori Antique Bold weight in the future.

Since ancient times, medium and bold fonts have been the most in demand in the Japanese publishing industry.

aaronbell commented 3 years ago

Here's the complication. The Google Fonts API requires that all families contain one font that is set at weight 400, and has the moniker Regular. Unfortunately, that is not something that I can change.

We can certainly call the font Shippori Antique Medium, but it will have to be at weight 400 (rather than 500) and will have a subfamily name of Regular. So it'll be Shippori Antique Medium Regular. If in the future we update the font to add a Regular weight at 400, there's a possibility that someone would get a different weight than they expect.

So, I'd suggest we set the font name as Shippori Antique One Regular for now, and then when more weights are added in the future, we can revisit how the font family is named holistically. What do you think?

fontdasu commented 3 years ago

Yes, I will follow your suggestion. This time, the name Shippori Antique One Regular is fine.

aaronbell commented 3 years ago

Thanks! Will implement that.