search

fontsource / font-files

1500+ open-source fonts bundled into neat packages.
https://fontsource.org
MIT License
170 stars 31 forks source link

Inter 4 #55

Open MonsterDeveloper opened 7 months ago

MonsterDeveloper commented 7 months ago

Description

Recently a new major version 4.0 of Inter typeface was released.

I believe fontsource should update the font-files accordingly to use the latest version.

ayuhito commented 6 months ago

This has been suggested multiple times in the past and we've denied it as we mirror Google Fonts 1:1 programmatically and want to reduce the maintenance burden on our end.

However, I think there is enough demand from users to justify hosting a separate branch for Inter 4 until Google catches up. I suggest a new package Inter 4 which will be the manually maintained version for the font, whilst the original Inter package will continue to mirror Google Fonts. That being said, it'll be up to the community to maintain future updates if that is the case.

The downside is that our custom packager doesn't support variable fonts nor does it subset fonts so the end user will be getting 100kb WOFF2 files per weight. It would help a lot if fontsource/fontsource#39, fontsource/fontsource#728 and fontsource/fontsource#730 were to be resolved but they are huge undertakings.

Also worth tracking https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/3429 which has discussion from the Google team to handle it soon.

shyakadavis commented 3 weeks ago

Hello, @ayuhito,

We programmatically mirror Google Fonts 1:1.

Does this mean that with the resolution of https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/3429, future installations will automatically be of Inter 4?

ayuhito commented 3 weeks ago

Depends on how Google approaches it. If Google publishes a new family called "Inter 4" to prevent regressions, then Fontsource will have a new package that users will need to migrate to. If they update the original "Inter" family instead, our existing package will reflect that too.

shyakadavis commented 3 weeks ago

From Marc, they decided to stick to the original name.

The answer is in, we're not going to rename the family.

https://github.com/rsms/inter/pull/678#issuecomment-2111995607

If they update the original "Inter" family instead, our existing package will reflect that too.

Thanks. I guess all we have to do is wait for them to publish, right?

ayuhito commented 3 weeks ago

If that's the case, then yes we just have to wait for a release.

Note that the update will look like a normal patch release on Fontsource, but at least for users who don't like the changes, they can pin their package versions 👍

kairader-remo commented 3 weeks ago

Outside of manually checking Google Fonts, is there a way to know when the new version is published?

shyakadavis commented 3 weeks ago

@kairader-remo

The closest to a date I could was Marc's comment:

Family should land on the Google Fonts website in approximately two weeks.

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/3429#issuecomment-2154822343