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Request for italic version of Quicksand #7811

Open rokapoz opened 1 month ago

rokapoz commented 1 month ago

Listnr report:

'' Will there be an italic version added to the Quicksand Family on Google Fonts? it looks like true italics were added to the font family when last updated. ''

m4rc1e commented 1 month ago

it looks like true italics were added to the font family when last updated.

Source please? The upstream repo, https://github.com/andrew-paglinawan/QuicksandFamily/tree/master/fonts/statics doesn't have Italics.

applecuckoo commented 1 month ago

Looking back through commit history, there were italics but it seems that they were removed by @m4rc1e in https://github.com/andrew-paglinawan/QuicksandFamily/commit/7092149f8f825e5908de1590e6dd21a7ccf35186 several years ago.

m4rc1e commented 1 month ago

Great find @applecuckoo. AFAIR, those sources were very incomplete and would require a lot of work to bring them up to standard. I will raise this request in our pipeline meeting tomorrow and post back.

kenmcd commented 1 month ago

@m4rc1e One of the forks also has sources for v1.0 with Obliques, v2.0 with Italics, and v2.1 with just Roman.: https://github.com/ThomasJockin/QuicksandFamily/tree/pr/1/sources

But, the v2 has a higher x-height and different spacing. (the current GF version 3 is like the v1) So that will be an issue.