TRIVIA.md

   1 # github.com/google/fonts.git repo trivia
   2
   3 ## Incomplete greek-ext subsets
   4
   5 Open Sans (and some others, like Roboto) are advertised as they supporting Extended Greek, but choosing the greek-ext subset will not display Open Sans (or the required font) for this range because they don't actually contain the required characters.
   6 You're welcome to commission these characters, though.
   7
   8 ## Google Fonts Repo Wiki
   9
  10 The previous fonts Mercurial repository had a wiki at <https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/wiki> which is no longer available.
  11 The contents of the wiki are now available here:
  12
  13 <https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-docs>
  14
  15 ## Duplicated fonts
  16
  17 From time to time, families have been renamed or updated in a way that the existing styles had to change substantially.
  18 Until April 2020, the initial family was retained, creating similarly named pairs of directories and often duplicate/redundant, files.
  19 The initial families are kept in the API so that people already using them can continue to do so.
  20 They are no longer listed in the [fonts.google.com](https://fonts.google.com) catalog, or in the HEAD of the master branch, but the files still exist in the commit history.
  21
  22 | Initial Family           | Current Family           | Category |
  23 |:-------------------------|:-------------------------|:---------|
  24 | `alefhebrew`             | `alef`                   | renamed  |
  25 | `mrbedford`              | `mrbedfort`              | renamed  |
  26 | `misssaintdelafield`     | `mrssaintdelafield`      | renamed  |
  27 | `siamreap`               | `siemreap`               | renamed  |
  28 | `terminaldosis`          | `dosis`                  | renamed  |
  29 | `terminaldosislight`     | `dosis`                  | expanded |
  30 | `baloo`                  | `baloo2`                 | expanded |
  31 | `baloobhai`              | `baloobhai2`             | expanded |
  32 | `baloobhaijaan`          | `baloobhaijaan2`         | expanded |
  33 | `baloobhaina`            | `baloobhaina2`           | expanded |
  34 | `baloochettan`           | `baloochettan2`          | expanded |
  35 | `balooda`                | `balooda2`               | expanded |
  36 | `baloopaaji`             | `baloopaaji2`            | expanded |
  37 | `balootamma`             | `balootamma2`            | expanded |
  38 | `balootammudu`           | `balootammudu2`          | expanded |
  39 | `baloothambi`            | `baloothambi2`           | expanded |
  40 | `bevietnam`              | `bevietnampro`           | expanded |
  41 | `spartan`                | `leaguespartan`          | expanded |
  42 | `scheherazade`           | `scheherazadenew`        | expanded |
  43 | `kdamthmor`              | `kdamthmorpro`           | expanded |
  44 | `andikanewbasic`         | `andika`                 | expanded |
  45 | `gentiumbasic`           | `gentiumplus`            | expanded |
  46 | `andada`                 | `andadapro`              | expanded |
  47 | `fredokaone`             | `fredoka`                | expanded |
  48 | `gentiumbookbasic`       | `gentiumbookplus`        | expanded |
  49 | `arimamadurai`           | `arima`                  | expanded |
  50 | `meriendaone`            | `merienda`               | expanded |
  51 | `codacaption`            | `coda`                   | expanded |
  52 | `sourceserifpro`         | `sourceserif4`           | renamed  |
  53 | `sourcesanspro`          | `sourcesans3`            | renamed  |
  54
  55
  56 ## Missing METADATA.pb files
  57
  58 Fonts in Early Access do not have METADATA.pb files.
  59
  60 ## .pb vs .textproto
  61
  62 While `.textproto` is now the canonical extension for Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) text files, we have hundreds of `METADATA` files with the `.pb` extension.
  63 The inconsistency isn't a practical issue, and as we have internal tools that assume the old filenames, it isn't worth renaming them proactively.
  64
  65 ## Install on Windows
  66
  67 You can install all of the fonts using Windows PowerShell. Change directories to the folder where you downloaded the package, and run the following command:
  68
  69     $fonts = (New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).Namespace(0x14)
  70     dir ofl/*/*.ttf | %{ $fonts.CopyHere($_.fullname) }
  71
  72 ## 3rd Party Directories
  73
  74 The [fonts.google.com](https://fonts.google.com) is accompanied by a [Google Fonts Developer API](https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/developer_api), which provides raw data for constructing such a directory in JSON format.
  75 Here is a list of 3rd party directories:
  76
  77 * <http://font-combinator.com> + <http://chipcullen.com/font-combinator>
  78 * <https://www.typetester.org>
  79 * <http://font-combinator.com>
  80 * <http://somadesign.ca/demos/better-google-fonts>
  81 * <http://fontapp.org>
  82 * <http://fontapp.org/graph>
  83 * <http://katydecorah.com/font-library>
  84 * <http://fontcdn.org>
  85 * <http://googlefontsdirectory.org>
  86 * <https://hail2u.github.io/mn>
  87 * <http://fontflame.com>
  88 * <http://jenniferdewalt.com/gfboom/page>
  89 * <http://fontpair.co>
  90 * <https://typ.io>
  91 * <http://andreasweis.com/webfontblender>
  92 * <http://www.typegenius.com>
  93 * <http://abbychen.me/punch>
  94 * <http://typewonder.com>
  95 * <http://www.localfont.com>
  96 * <http://open-foundry.com>
  97 * <https://typeresources.github.io/glyph-gazer>
  98 * <http://cdn.canelodigital.cl/fonts>
  99 * <http://code.thisarmy.com/fontsinfo>
 100 * <http://www.localfont.com>
 101 * <http://brandmark.io/font-generator>
 102 * <http://archetypeapp.com>
 103 * <https://useratio.com/the-anatomy-of-a-thousand-typefaces>
 104 * <https://tyffle.ml>
 105 * <https://lepovirta.github.io/Typographer>
 106 * <https://lepovirta.github.io/Typographer-React>
 107 * <https://jmattthew.github.io/better-font-finder/better-font-finder.html>
 108 * <https://font2vec.vishalgupta.me> ([source](https://github.com/py-ranoid/font2vec)), a 3D projection of all fonts
 109 * <https://logogenerator.website>
 110 * <http://www.ourownthing.co.uk/fontpairing/>
 111 * <https://goofonts.com>
 112 * <https://designmeme.github.io/finding-baseline>
 113 * <https://mikk3lro.github.io/vue-fontpicker>
 114 * <https://paulzi.github.io/google-fonts-loader>
 115 * <https://winniethemu.github.io/tiff>
 116 * <https://www.fontcomparer.com>
 117
 118 There are also handcrafted directories with rich samples:
 119
 120 * <http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type>
 121 * <http://femmebot.github.io/google-type>
 122 * <http://100daysoffonts.com>
 123 * <http://jxnblk.com/type-a>
 124 * <https://jonsuh.com/100-days-of-scriptures>
 125 * <http://codepen.io/nxworld/pen/XKRaRm>
 126 * <https://twitter.com/FontSnek>
 127 * <https://www.reliablepsd.com/ultimate-google-font-pairings>
 128 * <http://fonts.greatsimple.io>
 129 * <https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/best-google-font-combinations-typeface-pairings/>
 130 * <https://www.fontsinthewild.com/google>
 131 * <https://stabla.github.io/good-google-fonts>
 132
 133 ## Rightsholder contacts
 134
 135 This shell command shows all email addresses for font copyright holders listed in the METADATA.pb files:
 136
 137     grep copyright\: */*/MET* | grep \@ |  perl -ne'if(/[\w\.\-\_]+@([\w\-\_]+\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,4}/g){print "$&\n"}' | sort | uniq
 138
 139 This shell command shows all the families without a contact email address:
 140
 141     grep copyright\: */*/MET* | grep -v \@ | cut -d\: -f1 | cut -d\/ -f2 | uniq | sort
 142
 143 The copyright holders of those families include Google, SIL, Adobe, Canonical, Naver, and a couple of outliers.
 144
 145 ## Articles about Google Fonts
 146
 147 Some interesting articles about Google Fonts:
 148
 149 * <http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/05/introducing-google-font-api-google-font.html>
 150 * <http://googlewebfonts.blogspot.com>
 151 * <https://design.google.com/articles/reimagining-google-fonts>
 152 * <https://medium.com/google-design/introducing-space-mono-a-new-monospaced-typeface-by-colophon-foundry-for-google-fonts-84367eac6dfb>
 153 * <http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033126/roboto-rebooted-why-google-plans-to-update-its-font-like-the-rest-of-its-products>
 154
 155 ## Interesting Libre Fonts Not In Google Fonts
 156
 157 Here is a list of some libre fonts made for special purposes (emoji, math, icons, etc) that are not available in Google Fonts.
 158
 159 * <https://material.io/icons>
 160 * <https://github.com/figs-lab/datalegreya>
 161
 162 ## Where were the homepage sample texts from?
 163
 164 In 2016 to 2020, the Google Fonts catalog displayed one of a dozen or so different sample texts.
 165 Here they are and where they are from:
 166
 167 * "A red flair silhouetted the jagged edge of a wing" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany
 168 * "A shining crescent far beneath the flying vessel" – Triplanetary, E. E. Smith
 169 * "All their equipment and instruments are alive" – Mr. Spaceship, Philip K. Dick
 170 * "Almost before we knew it, we had left the ground" – A Trip to Venus, John Munro
 171 * "I watched the storm, so beautiful yet terrific" – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
 172 * "It was going to be a lonely trip back" – Youth by Isaac Asimov
 173 * "Mist enveloped the ship three hours out from port" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany
 174 * "My two natures had memory in common" – Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
 175 * "She stared through the window at the stars" – The Millionaire's Convenient Bride, Catherine George ????
 176 * "Silver mist suffused the deck of the ship" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany
 177 * "The face of the moon was in shadow" – Mr. Spaceship, Philip K. Dick
 178 * "The recorded voice scratched in the speaker" – Deathworld, Harry Harrison
 179 * "The sky was cloudless and of a deep dark blue" – A Trip to Venus, John Munro
 180 * "The spectacle before us was indeed sublime" – A Trip to Venus, John Munro
 181 * "Then came the night of the first falling star" – The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
 182 * "Waves flung themselves at the blue evening" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany"