Re: [Kimchi-devel] New-UI Helvetica Font

On 10/08/2015 09:58, Samuel Henrique De Oliveira Guimaraes wrote: > Hi team, > > I’m sending some screenshots to compare different fonts so we can > decide if we are going to replace Helvetica Neue for Open Sans > and/or TeXGyreHeros. > I also found out that Open Sans doesn’t have all the character > glyphs for simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean > languages (wok_current.png file, you can see that these texts have > jagged edges). The equivalent font for these languages is called > Noto Sans CJK which is licensed under SIL Open Font License (OFL). > The downside is that Noto Sans is very heavy (~88MB each language > set) so we would have to figure a way to load these font files only > when the user has changed the locale in the front-end. > OH! Wait... The idea is to use an open source and wide used font, which means, Kimchi will not package any font file. Isn’t there an open source and wide used font which works with all languages?

> > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Samuel > Guimaraes > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From:> > > Aline Manera [mailto:alinefm@linux.vnet.ibm.com] > ] > > > Sent: quarta-feira, 5 de agosto de 2015 15:24 > > To: Samuel Henrique De Oliveira Guimaraes > Samuel Henrique De Oliveira Guimaraes > <samuel.guimaraes(a)eldorado.org.br>; > ; > kimchi-devel(a)ovirt.org; donspang(a)us.ibm.com > > Subject: Re: [Kimchi-devel] New-UI Helvetica Font > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Kimchi-devel mailing list > > > > Kimchi-devel(a)ovirt.org > > > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/kimchi-devel > > > > > > > > > >

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