Redesigned Google Fonts website • Hacker News Board

KronisLV wrote: post #14

jmprspret wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not if you download the zip and host it yourself - which you can do

> Not if you download the zip and host it yourself - which you can do I don't think it's quite the same, though! If you go to Open Sans, for example ( https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans?query=open+sans ), and preview the CSS that it generates for the Regular style, then you'll get this: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans&display=s... You'll notice that it uses a lot of the unicode-range prope…

For subsetting Glyphhanger works really well: https://github.com/zachleat/glyphhanger

Re: Redesigned Google Fonts website

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Post by tribby » Sat, Sep 09, 2023, 7:12 AM UTC

SeanLuke wrote: post #28

Webpage has many useful filters, but is lacking the single most important one: what license the font is under.

all google fonts are OFL (the copyleft SIL open font license[0]) with the exception of some legacy fonts which are apache 2. they don’t publish fonts that aren’t OFL anymore

0. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...

Re: Redesigned Google Fonts website

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Post by Jabbles » Sat, Sep 09, 2023, 7:18 AM UTC

eek2121 wrote: post #2

Google fonts is just another way for Google to track users.

I guess it depends how much you want to believe them, but they deny this in their FAQ: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy#:~:text=For%....

Re: Redesigned Google Fonts website

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Post by eviks » Sat, Sep 09, 2023, 7:19 AM UTC

aragonite wrote: post #20

eviks wrote: post #6

So how do I find fonts that have 0s with a dot in the middle? > filters are now easier to reach and sectioned out meaningfully "Technology" is not a meaningful section, and in general having section taking more space than its content of just a single item doesn't help

Not saying this applies to your situation, but I'm always slightly amused when I hear tech-oriented people say "this font would be perfect for me except for this ONE deal breaker" (often but not always the problem of insufficient differentiation of 0 and O). It's pretty trivial to modify fonts! Just download FontForge, open the font file, navigate to the code point in question, and simple operations like adding a dot…

Good point, though bugs can easily creep in with such simple edits: in your copy&paste monospaced digits example you lose the ability to have both monospaced and proportional digits via a stylistic flag (and those are useful: use monospaced in tables, use proportional digits in text)

Also it's many files, not just one (though hopefully variadic fonts will catch on), so unfortunately patching fonts is a bit more complicated :( (but if it's literally close to just one thing, that it could still be worth it)

Re: Redesigned Google Fonts website

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Post by frankzander » Sat, Sep 09, 2023, 7:21 AM UTC

To be honest ... I don't like it. I would like to display the fonts as squares. I often didn't choose a font because it has disadvantages in readability compared to another font if it's used to show text in a paragraph.

Why is now everything on the left side? The filter is compared to the filters of adobe or other big font sites more or less unsophisticated. Why always this senseless upgrades?

Re: Redesigned Google Fonts website

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Post by eviks » Sat, Sep 09, 2023, 7:26 AM UTC

vladstudio wrote: post #12

eviks wrote: post #6

So how do I find fonts that have 0s with a dot in the middle? > filters are now easier to reach and sectioned out meaningfully "Technology" is not a meaningful section, and in general having section taking more space than its content of just a single item doesn't help

You could scroll through https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=0&preview.text_type=c...

No you couldn't, a font can have different styles. That's what databases and querying them is designed for

Re: Redesigned Google Fonts website

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Post by asu_thomas » Sat, Sep 09, 2023, 7:59 AM UTC

aragonite wrote: post #20

eviks wrote: post #6

So how do I find fonts that have 0s with a dot in the middle? > filters are now easier to reach and sectioned out meaningfully "Technology" is not a meaningful section, and in general having section taking more space than its content of just a single item doesn't help

Not saying this applies to your situation, but I'm always slightly amused when I hear tech-oriented people say "this font would be perfect for me except for this ONE deal breaker" (often but not always the problem of insufficient differentiation of 0 and O). It's pretty trivial to modify fonts! Just download FontForge, open the font file, navigate to the code point in question, and simple operations like adding a dot…

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Re: Redesigned Google Fonts website

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Post by RobotToaster » Sat, Sep 09, 2023, 8:12 AM UTC

eviks wrote: post #6

So how do I find fonts that have 0s with a dot in the middle? > filters are now easier to reach and sectioned out meaningfully "Technology" is not a meaningful section, and in general having section taking more space than its content of just a single item doesn't help

Same issue with finding fonts that have ligatures.