[Kimchi-devel] New-UI Helvetica Font

[Aline Manera]

On 14/09/2015 17:55, Aline Manera wrote:
>
> Hi Samuel,
>
> From my investigation, I identified the OpenSans font is packaged on 
> Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE but I failed to find the correspondent 
> package for RHEL 7.1
> I will try more on it and send you the details, but if we don't have 
> RHEL 7.1 package to provide the OpenSans font we will need to find 
> other solution on that. Maybe use other font.
>

OPs... Just found it :-)

on RHEL 7.1 (open-sans-fonts.noarch)

/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-open-sans.conf
/usr/share/doc/open-sans-fonts-1.10
/usr/share/doc/open-sans-fonts-1.10/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-open-sans.conf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-ExtraBold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Light.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-LightItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Semibold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-SemiboldItalic.ttf


If it is all you need, I can send a patch to expose the *.ttf files to 
the web server (the same I did for fontawesome).

> Below is the details for Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE.
>
> On Ubuntu 15.4 (texlive-fonts-extra):
>
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Bold.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-BoldItalic.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-CondLight.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-CondLightItalic.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-ExtraBold.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Italic.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Light.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-LightItalic.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Regular.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Semibold.ttf
> texlive-fonts-extra: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-SemiboldItalic.ttf
>
> On Fedora 22 (texlive-opensans.noarch):
>
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Bold.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-BoldItalic.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-CondLight.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-CondLightItalic.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-ExtraBold.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Italic.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Light.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-LightItalic.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Regular.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Semibold.ttf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-SemiboldItalic.ttf
>
> On OpenSUSE 13.2 (google-opensans-fonts-1.0-10.1.5.noarch):
>
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-ExtraBold.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-LightItalic.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-Light.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-SemiboldItalic.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-BoldItalic.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-Italic.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-Bold.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-CondBold.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-CondLight.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-CondLightItalic.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-Semibold.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/OpenSans-Regular.ttf
>
> Regards,
> 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. 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?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Samuel Guimarães
>>
>>
>>
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