[Kimchi-devel] New-UI Helvetica Font
Aline Manera
alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Sep 14 21:09:48 UTC 2015
On 14/09/2015 18:04, Samuel Henrique De Oliveira Guimaraes wrote:
>
> Hi Aline,
>
> Thank you! I’m glad all the files have the same name.
>
Does the package contain all we need? Do you want me to expose them to
the server?
> Regards,
>
> Samuel
>
> *From:*Aline Manera [mailto:alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com]
> *Sent:* segunda-feira, 14 de setembro de 2015 18:02
> *To:* Samuel Henrique De Oliveira Guimaraes
> <samuel.guimaraes at eldorado.org.br>; kimchi-devel at ovirt.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Kimchi-devel] New-UI Helvetica Font
>
> 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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