Remove remaining PebbleOS resources

[jwise]

Currently, RebbleOS sucks in PebbleOS resource packs; on tintin-family devices, it sucks in the following:

• Agency
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_AGENCY_FB_60_THIN_NUMBERS_AM_PM
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_AGENCY_FB_60_NUMBERS_AM_PM
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_AGENCY_FB_36_NUMBERS_AM_PM
  • Luckily we only have to do numbers. (Font is closed source)
• Gothic
  • [x] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_09
  • [x] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_14
  • [x] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_14_BOLD
  • [x] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_18
  • [x] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_18_BOLD
  • [x] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_24
  • [x] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_24_BOLD
  • [x] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_28
  • [x] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_28_BOLD
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_36
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_GOTHIC_36_BOLD
  • I think the 36 variants were distributed only with P2T, can you supply me with the distributed font files so I can extract metrics info?
• Bitham = Gotham
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_BITHAM_18_LIGHT_SUBSET
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_BITHAM_34_LIGHT_SUBSET
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_BITHAM_30_BLACK
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_BITHAM_42_BOLD
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_BITHAM_42_LIGHT
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_BITHAM_34_MEDIUM_NUMBERS
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_BITHAM_42_MEDIUM_NUMBERS
  • Gotham rasterizations. Maybe there's some similar SIL-OFL font (Montserrat comes to mind, though its metrics are screwy?) that we can base the new sprites on?
• Roboto
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_ROBOTO_CONDENSED_21
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_ROBOTO_BOLD_SUBSET_49
  • Apache License, let's rerender these.
• Droid
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_DROID_SERIF_28_BOLD
  • There's an Apache License version.
• Leco
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_LECO_20_BOLD_NUMBERS
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_LECO_26_BOLD_NUMBERS_AM_PM
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_LECO_32_BOLD_NUMBERS
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_LECO_36_BOLD_NUMBERS
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_LECO_38_BOLD_NUMBERS
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_LECO_28_LIGHT_NUMBERS
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_LECO_42_NUMBERS
  • If we keep the same design language and metrics (including thickness), a lot of the characters will end up being the same. I'd still like to try deviate a bit (slanted serifs may look nice on a few characters, I was never a fan of the 5, ...)
• Emoji
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_EMOJI_14
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_EMOJI_18
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_EMOJI_24
  • [ ] RESOURCE_ID_EMOJI_28
  • I think there are more tricks going on here. Using my (very hacky) font inspector, these seem to have fewer emoji than I'd expect? Are these somewhere else in the OS?
• [ ] RESOURCE_ID_FONT_FALLBACK
  • This points to some Gothic variant, but I forgot which.

We need replacements for these fonts in order to redistribute RebbleOS on non-Pebble devices. Renaissance should replace some of these; what about the rest?

[jneubrand]

Oh hi! I can probably do a handful of these :)

[jneubrand]

[IANAL] since these are all bitmap fonts, their actual shape is not covered by US copyright laws as far as I can tell. If we extract all letters as .pngs, or whatever, and recompile a font with the same metrics, we should be clear... in the US.

For other countries this is a bit more complicated but I think I still have the metrics-extracting scripts ready so using the ascii representation & compiling new fonts should be alright. (For roboto & droid specifically, we should use the direct-recompile approach.)

Not sure about agency

For LECO, I’d like to consider doing something a bit different (eg with serifs) but stick to the blocky design overall.

For Bitham, idk. That one will take a good amount of time.

[jwise]

I was hoping you'd jump on this one! :-)

For some of these it might even be okay to punt -- if we don't need them to get the system up and running, we can defer it for quite some time, probably.

[jneubrand]

BTW, I designed the font in this watchface and would be happy to donate it to the cause :) unfortunately I no longer have the raw code, do you know how to fetch app tarballs from the currently live store?

[CennoxX]

@jneubrand The query parameter is not named dev, it's dev_settings. If you open this link, you'll get a link to download the .pbw at the bottom.

[jwise]

Renaissance fonts are now the default!

[jwise]

Ok, I've submitted a PR to the metrics in Renaissance for metrics for all Pebble fonts.

[jneubrand]

@jwise thanks a ton!

[leo60228]

Gotham rasterizations. Maybe there's some similar SIL-OFL font (Montserrat comes to mind, though its metrics are screwy?) that we can base the new sprites on?

VMware's Clarity City seems like it could be a good choice. It's derived* from Metropolis, which is very similar to Gotham.

*From what I can tell, upstream Metropolis was taken down due to a trademark dispute, but VMware used it in their products. Based on the revision history, the font itself seems to be identical.