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Using Product Sans font with restricted license for the headers #682

Closed webmaxru closed 4 years ago

webmaxru commented 4 years ago

Hello! I explored a bit about the permission to use Product Sans font used for the headers: https://github.com/gdg-x/hoverboard/blob/master/src/elements/shared-styles.html#L85

It seems like it's a proprietary Google's font for internal usage. It's not listed at resource Google Fonts https://fonts.google.com/?query=product Also, the link to https://fonts.google.com/license/googlerestricted saying "Google offers many fonts under open source licenses. This is not one of them. Please see fonts.google.com for options you can use." is included in CSS file https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Product+Sans:100,100i,300,300i,400,400i,500,500i,700,700i,900,900i

Discussion on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-download-the-Google-Product-Sans-font

Should we consider changing it to something else to avoid potential licensing issues?

abraham commented 4 years ago

Sounds good to me. I would favor switching to system fonts.

webmaxru commented 4 years ago

The sent PR covers only removing explicitly set font-family for the titles - to quickfix the licensing issue. Switching the whole app to system fonts like in the mentioned GitHub is a good idea but more investigation and testing needed :)