Add Special Gothic

[AlistairMcCready]

Font Project Git Repo URL:

https://github.com/AlistairMcCready/Special-Gothic

Super short description of the Font Family:

Special Gothic is a multi-width sans serif typeface built as a contemporary reimagining of the raw tenacity offered up by early 20th century Gothic type styles.

Requirements:

Google Fonts will publish only fonts that match its requirements. Please familiarize yourself with the complete documentation in the Google Fonts Guide (GF-Guide) and ensure your font project complies with them before submitting the font family. You can also use the Google Fonts Project Template, which will help you create a repository that follows the needed structure and includes build requirements.

By filling this issue, you can confirm the project meets the requirements (by ticking the cases or putting x between the square brackets in text mode):

• [x] I read, agree, and comply with the full contributing requirements
• [x] The entire font project is licensed under the OFL
• [x] There is no "Reserved Font Name" mention in the OFL license
• [x] Family name is unique according to namecheck.fontdata.com
• [x] The font supports at least GF Latin Core glyphset
• [x] The repository respect the upstream repo structure
• [x] The source files are available in the repository
• [x] I am the author of the font, or the author agreed to this submission
• [x] I will maintain the repository and participate in the onboarding process (addressing, solving, and responding to issues, merging pull requests, etc)

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[RosaWagner]

Hi @AlistairMcCready, thanks for your submission. It will be reviewed in the next month or so, and we'll get back to you if it got accepted or rejected. I can anticipate that the build for wght and wdth axis might be complicated with 3 masters, you may need to add masters as each corners of the design space so we can build with our tools.

[AlistairMcCready]

Thank you for the update @RosaWagner! Just to let you know the family is actually 3 masters and 3 instances at those locations, there are no variable fonts planned for this family.

[RosaWagner]

Hi @AlistairMcCready, 3 instances would simplify the work. Expect the naming to change since Condensed, Expanded and Normal are considered 3 different single-style families; therefore they would have to all be Regular. This is the chapter explaining the naming for single-style families: https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/statics.html#single-weight-families

[AlistairMcCready]

Sure thing, is that something we should take care of or will that be done by Google?

[eliheuer]

I just reviewed the source file, looks good, @AlistairMcCready Google could make the change if you don't want to.

We will review this today!

[AlistairMcCready]

Awesome thank you. Great to see the wheels turning!

[chrissimpkins]

Thanks for the recommendation! Added to our Q1 2024 onboarding queue.

[ckukahiko]

Hey there @eliheuer, @RosaWagner & @chrissimpkins. Could we get an update on this? We'd love to start using Special Gothic in our decks. Thanks!

[davelab6]

Sadly, Rosalie and Eli have both now moved on from working on onboarding with us, but we can assign other folks. 

Currently your v1 release has:

• SpecialGothic-CondensedMedium.ttf
• SpecialGothic-ExtendedBold.ttf
• SpecialGothic-Regular.ttf

This is suitable for Adobe apps, but not Microsoft apps, where the only styles allowed in a family are the 9 weights from Thin 100 to Black 900. Therefore the width name particle has to move to the family section, and the weight has to reset to Regular, so they will be like this:

• SpecialGothicCondensed-Regular.ttf
• SpecialGothicExtended-Regular.ttf
• SpecialGothic-Regular.ttf

And show up in GF and Workspace as 3 separate, single-weight, families. 

Our onboarding folks can make the changes for this in the source files and make a PR to your repo, and once accepted, then onboard the TTFs into github.com/google/fonts and then into our systems. 

[ckukahiko]

Adding @weiweihuanghuang

[AlistairMcCready]

Hi Dave,

I’ve chatted with Wei (our mastering guy) on this and it would probably be simplest if your onboarding team can make the changes at your end, and we can then accept the PR when it comes through. Does this work for you?

Thanks, —Alistair

[kenmcd]

Pulling three random styles out of what is obviously a larger family just smells like a PR stunt.

There should probably be at least 12 styles in the family. Add a SemiBold (600) to each width. Condensed (4) + Normal (4) + Expanded (4) = 12

And if the actual source was available, rather than just three styles exported as "masters", there could also be additional widths. And a variable font.

Anyone finding these on GF would wonder where all the other fonts are. I found seven of the nine styles (or 12).

p.s. According to GF font naming rules these should be:

• Special Gothic Condensed One - Regular
• Special Gothic Extended One - Regular
• Special Gothic One - Regular

Of course that would be confusing to users.

[ckukahiko]

Hey @emmamarichal, @davelab6 & @chrissimpkins, just checking in to see how this is coming along. I believe we're nearly at the end of Q3, right? =D crosses fingers

[emmamarichal]

Hi @ckukahiko, yes sorry for the delay, we had a lot of projects this quarter, and we will probably have to move it to Q4.