Add Saitamaar - Githubissues

scrpgil commented 9 months ago

Font Project Git Repo URL: https://github.com/asciiart-development/SaitamaarFont

Super short description of the Font Family: Saitamaar is a font designed specifically for ASCII art. It is particularly optimized for displaying Japanese SJIS-Art (Shift JIS Art).

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)

Image:

image-saitamaar

RosaWagner commented 9 months ago

Hi @scrpgil, thanks for your submission and using the gf-repo-template. This looks very promising.

Although it looks like:

you are not the author of the font, would it be possible to contact them to back up this submission?
the ufo source has been made from opening an .otf file into fontforge, to then export to ufo with no further changes, can you confirm?
the font metadata doesn't display any info about the license; is the author actually okay to license this font under OFL? I understand the font was provided for the public domain under a specific license allowing that, but I don't know if the change license is still legal or not. cc @davelab6

davelab6 commented 9 months ago

Thanks @RosaWagner , agreed

@keage please could you confirm here you are the sole copyright holder, and you are OK with the font being redistributed under the Open Font License?

scrpgil commented 9 months ago

Thank you for your review. I am happy to answer some of your questions.

you are not the author of the font, would it be possible to contact them to back up this submission?

I am not the creator of the font. I have obtained permission from the creator to submit it to Google Fonts and have created the UFO file based on that.

the ufo source has been made from opening an .otf file into fontforge, to then export to ufo with no further changes, can you confirm?

As you pointed out, the metadata such as the license was not set. I will make sure to update and set it accordingly.

the font metadata doesn't display any info about the license; is the author actually okay to license this font under OFL? I understand the font was provided for the public domain under a specific license allowing that, but I don't know if the change license is still legal or not. cc @davelab6

I have received permission from the author to distribute the font under the OFL license.

@keage please could you confirm here you are the sole copyright holder, and you are OK with the font being redistributed under the Open Font License?

I will contact keage to ask them to respond to this issue.

keage commented 9 months ago

Sorry for late reply.

I (@keage) am the creator and the sole copyright holder of Saitamaar. I totally agreed with the font being redistributed under the OFL.

RosaWagner commented 9 months ago

@keage thanks for answering, this is absolutely nice of you. Then we will try to review this submission shortly and give you prompt feedback on the decision.

eliheuer commented 9 months ago

@scrpgil @keage This fonts has some unusual and uneven spacing. Note how some characters are pushed to the far left of the bounding box, but others are centered. Is there a reason I don't understand for this?