[Kimchi-devel] New-UI Helvetica Font

[Aline Manera]

On 16/07/2015 13:09, Samuel Henrique De Oliveira Guimaraes wrote:
>
> Hi team,
>
> I noticed that the new-ui design pattern for typography specifies 
> Helvetica Neue family in four different styles. This font family is 
> shipped with the latest versions of Mac OS X and iOS but it is not 
> available for free on Windows and Linux distributions.
>
> I believe this might conflict with Kimchi license. Even if we buy or 
> rent a webfont license we can’t distribute the TTF, EOT, WOFF and SVG 
> files in our repositories. I think that we can’t even use a webfont 
> license in this case (pointing to a remote location or service like 
> Adobe Typekit or MyFonts) because most font-licensing services are 
> charging based on pre-paid pageviews.
>
> Usually for web apps, mobile web apps and cloud based services we have 
> to buy a server license to store the webfont files within our servers, 
> but since Kimchi is an open-source project that anyone can check out 
> and run, every kimchi instance would have to buy their own font license.
>

> We can set Helvetica as the default font-family in the CSS and if the 
> user doesn’t have this font installed the browser will load the next 
> available font (Arial or any other Sans-Serif) but since each font has 
> different sizes, some elements may not fit in the screen exactly like 
> they were seen in the mockups.
>

Hrm... we should build the new UI with responsive web design in mind 
which means changing the font, font size, resizing the browser or 
whatever will not impact in the final layout.

> Also, the UI specs recommends Helvetica Neue in 5 different styles 
> (Light, Roman, Regular, Medium and Bold), most system fonts only have 
> 3. We don’t have something like “Arial Light” for instance.
>
> My suggestion is that we replace Helvetica Neue for Open Sans because 
> it covers all the style specifications and it is licensed under Apache 
> 2.0. Any thoughts?
>

Could you provide a screenshot with the Open Sans font so we can see how 
it will look like?

In first hand, I am OK to change to Open Sans.
I am copying Don who originally designed the new UI with the Helvetica 
Neue font to check if he has any advice to do.

> Thanks,
>
> Samuel Guimarães
>
>
>
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