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Onboarding Geist to Google Fonts #99

Open yanone opened 2 months ago

yanone commented 2 months ago

Hello.

I've been commissioned to onboard Geist to Google Fonts.

Here are a few things I found that we would require to change:

Normally, I would make those changes and send you a PR back. But at least one of them (UltraLight instance name) may break existing text, so I wanted to communicate about that first. I mean, fonts hosted on GoogleFonts are in a separate environment to existing Geist fonts, but it may be inconvenient to keep two versions of sources around. I may also be able to come up with a build script that can rename the instance and not change the source.

Looking forward to your reply.

guidoferreyra commented 2 months ago

Hi @yanone! I’m helping the designers team to solve some issues and improve the tech quality of the font. After #25 we have been discusing internally about onboarding to GF and I mentioned the required breaking changes. It‘s very likely that those changes will be done to avoid having different versions of Geist but it will happen in the next month or so.

I will keep you posted.

yanone commented 2 months ago

Excellent, thank you.

davelab6 commented 2 months ago

We also need to resolve the rfn which can be done by someone from vercel emailing fonts@google.com with an rfn permission, there's an example email in the gf guide :) https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/license-file.html

Kitenite commented 2 months ago

This would be very helpful, thank you!

yanone commented 3 weeks ago

@guidoferreyra What's the status here?

leonardobetti commented 2 weeks ago

any news?

guidoferreyra commented 2 weeks ago

hi @yanone we are resuming on the work this month to keep doing fixes and start to prepare the fonts for onboarding. There are some breaking issues taht needs to be done before the family goes to GF. Following @davelab6 comment I will connect Vercel people with you this week.

yanone commented 2 weeks ago

Thank you for the update. I'll be out for July and August, so not much time left. If the fonts are ready during that time, better connect with Dave about handing the work to another onboarder. But summers are generally slow as other people also take time off.

chrissimpkins commented 2 days ago

Re-assigning from Yanone to @vv-monsalve. Let's see if we can land this in Fonts in Q3

guidoferreyra commented 2 days ago

A temporary repo for the non mono family it’s available here. I’m having an issue with customize.py see here