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| The '''Ubuntu Font Family''' are a set of matching new Free- and open-fonts in development during 2010-2011. The development is being funded by Canonical of behalf the wider Free Software community and the Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation is being undertaken by '''Dalton Maag'''. Members of the Ubuntu core development team are packaging the font in {{{.deb}}} format. * http://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family (project) * http://fonttest.design.canonical.com/ (in-webbrowser online testing/feedback) * http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bugs (bug reports, please do contribute!) <<TableOfContents(3)>> == Timeline == As of August 2010, development is on-going and continuous. Snapshots are being gradually rolled out on a ''phased basis'', to wider circles of people, and in larger snapshots as the opportunity of each six-monthly Ubuntu release approaches: * Ubuntu 10.04: ''very'' early snapshot used for the 2010 X/K/Ubuntu [[brand|re-branding exercise]] * Ubuntu 10.10: Should have four fonts in sans-serif style: Regular, ''Italic'', '''Bold''', '''''Bold Italic''''' * Ubuntu 11.04: Additional fonts, and expanded language coverage, including {{{Monospace}}} for terminal use! Like all software destined for the Ubuntu {{{main}}} repository, the '''Ubuntu Font Family will be under a ''completely Free/open'' licence ''before'' it gets added!''' === Phased beta === The initial Alpha and Beta testing of the Ubuntu Font Family has been rolled out in phases under progressively more open distribution conditions: * Canonical design team ("DX"), proprietary, NDAed, Sup3r S3cr3t (later 2009) * Canonical employees, proprietary, NDAed (early 2010) * Ubuntu members + web-preview, proprietary (July 2010) * ''more to come!...'' The font family is a long-term project and the phased feedback process is not something that everyone has immediately embraced! It is however a historical development: Dave Crossland (of the Open Font Library) notes [[http://lwn.net/Articles/396711/|on the LWN article]] that this the ''first time'' that a traditional font foundry company has been prepared to release ''any'' beta test versions of their in-development fonts. Hopefully in the future the Ubuntu Font Family can be held up as an example of success and open up the possibilities to go even further. Lets make this work! From a font-designers point-of-view, half-finished fonts have a habit of getting distributed in the wild "like viruses" with cause all sorts of issues like people's documents to re-flow as characters are refined before the final version. == References == Ubuntu Developer Summit-M: * [[http://video.ubuntu.com/uds/maverick/UDS-M-Plenary-Wednesday-low.ogv|The Ubuntu Font Family]] (Bruno Maag, plenary video offset 34:45 onwards, 2010-08-12) * [[http://video.ubuntu.com/uds/maverick/UDS-M-Making-Beautiful-Fonts-low.ogv|Making Beautiful Fonts]] (Bruno Maag, video, 2010-05-12) === Design team === * [[http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/308|Light: the new look of Ubuntu - A new Ubuntu font]] (Mark Shuttleworth, 2010-03-04) * [[http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/the-ubuntu-font/|The Ubuntu Font]] (Ivanka Majic, 2010-07-07) * [[http://design.canonical.com/2010/08/font-friday/|Font Friday]] (Ivanka Majic, 2010-08-06) === Dalton Maag === * [[http://design.canonical.com/2010/08/the-first-milestone/|The First Milestone]] (Bruno Maag, 2010-08-10) * [[http://design.canonical.com/2010/08/finding-the-ubuntu-font-design/|Finding the Ubuntu Font Design]] (Lukas Paltram, 2010-08-13) === News === * [[http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/07/first-look-new-ubuntu-font-boosts-linux-typography.ars|First look: new Ubuntu font boosts Linux typography]], ''Ars Technica'', (Ryan Paul, 2010-07-07) * [[http://lwn.net/Articles/396711/|Ubuntu's font beta sparks discussions about open font development]], ''LWN'', (Nathan Willis, 2010-07-21) == Coverage == * 1,200 glyphs * 200-250 languages * native languages of 3 billion people! === Fonts === The Ubuntu Font Family is a sans-serif typeface family with an intended coverage of thirteen fonts: || Font || Regular || '''Bold''' || ''Italic'' || '''''Bold Italic''''' || || Ubuntu || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || || Ubuntu {{{Monospace}}} || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || || Ubuntu Light || Yes || || Yes || || || Ubuntu Medium || Yes || || Yes || || || Ubuntu Condensed || Yes || || || || === Scripts === || Latin || Extended: A+B+more... || || Greek || Monotonic+Polytonic+variations || || Cyrillic || Extended || || Arabic || || || Hebrew || || || Mathematical || Limited || === Technology === * Open''''''Type-based TTF (True''''''Type) * Alternative glyphs (eg. proportional/non-proportional/superscript/subscript numerals) * Debugging glyphs (U+EFFD, U+EFFE, U+EFFF, U+F000) giving face, version, grayscale level and pixels-per-em digit display) The pixels-per-em 7-segment digits are driven by the hint engine, so if hinting is by default off (eg. Firefox) then the output will show as a pair of '88' numerals. == Design process == The four Latin characters, ''''n o H O'''' helped to define a guide for around 80-percent of the remaining characters. Extensive manual hinting has been performed for rendered sizes below 60 pixels-per-em. === Software tools === Dalton Maag are using the following tools: * Font Lab * Microsoft Visual * In-house Python-based accent placement scripts In Ubuntu: * Gucharmap (Applications->Accessories->Character Map) * fontmatrix ({{{apt-get install fontmatrix}}}) * Font''''''Forge ({{{apt-get install fontforge}}}) Font''''''Forge (as of mid-2010) does not handle some extended Open''''''Type features, hopefully having a Free font that uses these features will speed development in being able to support the them! |
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