Add Geist & Geist Mono - Githubissues

davelab6 commented 11 months ago

https://github.com/vercel/geist-font

[x] Geist #8246
[x] Geist Mono #8264

fakerybakery commented 11 months ago

Unfort. Geist has the "reserved font name" clause. Opened an issue there.

kenmcd commented 11 months ago

And the design coordinates are being used as the instance weights in the variable fonts.

arnoldsandoval commented 11 months ago

I think this can be closed? https://github.com/vercel/geist-font/issues/41#issuecomment-1791039360

eliheuer commented 10 months ago

There was some discussion about this being an Inter fork, and if the copy the font uses to describe itself if onboarded to Google Fonts should be changed to reflect that.

The bottom of the Geist README has this note linking to other fonts it was inspired by, and this would be included in the font description if onboarded to Google Fonts:

Below are some screenshots from the Geist and Inter source files showing how these two font are drastically different. Also note that Geist has a UPM of 1000, and Inter has a UPM of 2048. Even if Geist started as a fork of Inter, it is now a completely unique typeface.

If this is in fact a fork of Inter, we can amend the font description on Google Fonts to say that, but they are so different it feels like a gray area to me.

If this gets added to Google Fonts next year we can make a small change to the description copy to say it is an Inter fork to make if there is definitive proof it is.

There is nothing wrong with using an existing OFL font to start a project, The OFL is designed for that and encourages it. Forking saves time and money, as a font engineer, my job is to make font production as easy and cost effective as possible, so we can have more high-quality OFL fonts.

In my opinion font engineers and type designers should have a bias towards creating value for users, not doing “work” or always being original.

Geist: