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nguyentype / vinasans

Vina Sans is an open-source font inspired by the letters on street signs, flyers, and posters found throughout Vietnam. In addition, the font also incorporates an element of font errors that appear a lot on publications with a low level of perfection.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/127568189/Vina-Sans-Free-Font
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Preparing Vina Sans for Google Fonts #2

Open yanone opened 1 year ago

yanone commented 1 year ago

Hello,

I'm tasked with preparing Vina Sans for release on Google Fonts. I checked the font to comply with GF specifications and found the most glaring problem to be the glyph set. The font is missing many many glyphs that GF requires as the minimum.

Many glyphs are composites of accented letters, those should be easy to add. Others may have to be drawn. Please take a look at this file and download and place it in your sources folder next to the .glyphs file. When you open Glyphs.app, you will see new Custom Filters in the left sidebar that will help you adding them. Your font must support the "GF_Latin_Core" glyph set as the minimum.

Otherwise there are a small handful of tiny issues that can be corrected easily and I can help you with that once the glyph set is complete.

Please do ask if you have any questions. Thank you.

nguyentype commented 1 year ago

Hello @yanone,

Thank you for your help. I just updated the font files and source files into the repository. These files included a new style for the font: NGT Vina Sans Neue (The old version will be NGT Vina Sans Original now)

yanone commented 1 year ago

I'll take a look next week. Thank you.

yanone commented 1 year ago

What is, in your opinion, the difference between the two masters? They look fairly identical in most cases. Am I correct in thinking that only one of the two would get released?

nguyentype commented 1 year ago

Hi @yanone , The difference between the masters is:

yanone commented 1 year ago

I can see the differences. But what do we make of them? Do you want to release both versions on Google Fonts even though the differences are not very pronounced?

nguyentype commented 1 year ago

Hi @yanone, after considering, I think I will release Vina Sans Neue only. And The font name will be renamed to Vina Sans instead of Vina Sans Neue.

yanone commented 1 year ago

Great. I'll be off next week. You'll hear from me again the week after.

yanone commented 1 year ago

I'm starting my actual work on the font now. When I'm done, I will create a Pull Request (PR) to send my changes back to you, which you will be asked to merge into your repository. Meanwhile, please fill this form with the bio to be displayed next to the font on fonts.google.com. Thank you.

nguyentype commented 1 year ago

@yanone Thank you 😁

yanone commented 1 year ago

Done. Please merge this: https://github.com/nguyentype/vinasans/pull/3 and don't forget to fill the designer profile form (link in comment above). Thank you.

nguyentype commented 1 year ago

@yanone I merged & filled the form. Thank you 🙏