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googlefonts / literata

A contemporary serif typeface family for long-form reading
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Are v3.0 files available to download anywhere? #21

Closed kokoshneta closed 3 years ago

kokoshneta commented 4 years ago

As far as I can tell, Google Fonts has only v2.201 available for use or download. TypeTogether’s website also only seems to have v2.201 (or perhaps v2.202?).

I can see there’s a build script available in the GitHub repo, but … well, I don’t think I even have Python set up on my machine, and I have certainly never installed or used Google’s fontmake. Requiring anyone who would like to try out the v3.0 fonts to get Python and fontmake up and running seems a little overkillish.

(Edit: Even after getting Python and fontmake up and running, I still can’t even get the build script to work. No matter what I do, it complains about denied permissions and “failed to load external entity XYZ.designspace” …)

The last commit, just over two months ago, calls it the final repository for v3.0, so my guess is that the files are all ready. Should they not be available to download as built OTF/TTF files somewhere?

Cogli commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/josescaglione/literata/commit/117e63c9c2b17f586afc6e28341deb5ff50d2f64

Here you can find v3.0 ttfs, inside sources folder.

kokoshneta commented 4 years ago

Ah, so it wasn’t just me – they really weren’t anywhere official.

(I did eventually get the build script to work and confirmed that there are some naming issues due to some missing and incorrect attributes in the .designspace files, see issue #16. I’m guessing, though I haven’t tested, that the ones you linked to also have this issue.)

Cogli commented 4 years ago

I suppose they were a non-official release, as they were later dismissed. No wonder if something is off. But depending on your needs, they can work just fine.

kokoshneta commented 4 years ago

Were they dismissed? All the final v3 files, you mean? I hadn’t seen that, but that would certainly explain why they don’t really show up anywhere.

Cogli commented 4 years ago

I'm talking about the ttfs files, as you can see that's an earlier commit, and the files were deleted later on. I think some changes in sources too occurred in the process.

davelab6 commented 3 years ago

Literata is now on gf