Add Public Sans

[davelab6]

https://github.com/uswds/public-sans

[eliheuer]

Both Roman and Italic build with fontmake, I might start a draft PR just to get things moving.

[thisisdano]

Thanks for getting this started. Let me know what you might need from our side. I'm unfamiliar with this process — can you point me to any relevant documentation?

[caiotarifa]

Extremely relevant, I'd like to use this font in my AMP-based website. (And it will be cool to use on Google Drive apps.)

[eliheuer]

@thisisdano

The fonts need to build with fontmake (not exported from Glyphs) and then they need to pass the quality assurance tests suite known as Font Bakery.

After that, there is a walkthrough for making a Pull Request to Google Fonts here: https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-docs/tree/master/MakingPullRequestsToGF

Font bakery produces a markdown report that can be submitted with the pull request. Since it seems like this is an active project, let's start making PRs to https://github.com/uswds/public-sans to fix whatever Font Bakery issues come up.

Thanks!

[eliheuer]

@thisisdano Here is the Font Bakery report for the Roman variable font; most issues here seem easy to fix:

Fontbakery report

Fontbakery version: 0.7.2

[3] Family checks

🔥 FAIL: Check font has a license.

• com.google.fonts/check/family/has_license
• 🔥 FAIL No license file was found. Please add an OFL.txt or a LICENSE.txt file. If you are running fontbakery on a Google Fonts upstream repo, which is fine, just make sure there is a temporary license file in the same folder. [code: no-license]

🔥 FAIL: Check that METADATA.pb family values are all the same.

• com.google.fonts/check/metadata/familyname
• 🔥 FAIL METADATA.pb: Family name is not the same in all metadata "fonts" items.

⚠ WARN: METADATA.pb: Fontfamily is listed on Google Fonts API?

• com.google.fonts/check/metadata/listed_on_gfonts
• ⚠ WARN Family not found via Google Fonts API.

[18] PublicSans.wght.ttf

🔥 FAIL: Checking file is named canonically.

• com.google.fonts/check/canonical_filename
• 🔥 FAIL Please change the font filename to use one of the following valid suffixes for variable fonts: VF, Italic-VF, Roman-VF

🔥 FAIL: Is 'gasp' table set to optimize rendering?

• com.google.fonts/check/gasp
• 🔥 FAIL Font is missing the 'gasp' table. Try exporting the font with autohinting enabled.

🔥 FAIL: Checks METADATA.pb font.post_script_name matches postscript name declared on the name table.

• com.google.fonts/check/metadata/nameid/post_script_name
• 🔥 FAIL Unmatched postscript name in font: TTF has "PublicSans-Light" while METADATA.pb has "PublicSans-Regular". [code: mismatch]

🔥 FAIL: METADATA.pb font.full_name value matches fullname declared on the name table?

• com.google.fonts/check/metadata/nameid/full_name
• 🔥 FAIL Unmatched fullname in font: TTF has "Public Sans Light" while METADATA.pb has "Public Sans Regular". [code: mismatch]

🔥 FAIL: METADATA.pb font.post_script_name field contains font name in right format?

• com.google.fonts/check/metadata/valid_post_script_name_values
• 🔥 FAIL METADATA.pb postScriptName ("PublicSans-Regular") does not match correct font name format ("Public Sans Light").

🔥 FAIL: Copyright notices match canonical pattern in METADATA.pb

• com.google.fonts/check/metadata/valid_copyright
• 🔥 FAIL METADATA.pb: Copyright notices should match a pattern similar to: 'Copyright 2017 The Familyname Project Authors (git url)'
  But instead we have got: 'Copyright 2019 The Public San Authors (https://github.com/uswds/public-sans)'

🔥 FAIL: METADATA.pb: Filename is set canonically?

• com.google.fonts/check/metadata/canonical_filename
• 🔥 FAIL METADATA.pb: filename field ("PublicSans.wght.ttf") does not match canonical name "PublicSans-Roman-VF.ttf".

🔥 FAIL: METADATA.pb font.name and font.full_name fields match the values declared on the name table?

• com.google.fonts/check/metadata/nameid/family_and_full_names
• 🔥 FAIL METADATA.pb: Fullname ("Public Sans Regular") does not match name table entry "Public Sans Light" ! [code: fullname-mismatch]

🔥 FAIL: Font enables smart dropout control in "prep" table instructions?

• com.google.fonts/check/smart_dropout
• 🔥 FAIL 'prep' table does not contain TrueType instructions enabling smart dropout control. To fix, export the font with autohinting enabled, or run ttfautohint on the font, or run the gftools fix-nonhinting script.

🔥 FAIL: Checking OS/2 usWinAscent & usWinDescent.

• com.google.fonts/check/family/win_ascent_and_descent
• 🔥 FAIL OS/2.usWinDescent value should be equal or greater than 230, but got 220 instead [code: descent]

🔥 FAIL: Checking OS/2 Metrics match hhea Metrics.

• com.google.fonts/check/os2_metrics_match_hhea
• 🔥 FAIL OS/2 sTypoAscender and hhea ascent must be equal. [code: ascender]

🔥 FAIL: Does the font have a DSIG table?

• com.google.fonts/check/dsig
• 🔥 FAIL This font lacks a digital signature (DSIG table). Some applications may require one (even if only a dummy placeholder) in order to work properly.

🔥 FAIL: Whitespace and non-breaking space have the same width?

• com.google.fonts/check/whitespace_widths
• 🔥 FAIL Whitespace and non-breaking space have differing width: Whitespace (space) is 254 font units wide, non-breaking space (uni00A0) is 223 font units wide. Both should be positive and the same.

⚠ WARN: Checking OS/2 achVendID.

• com.google.fonts/check/vendor_id
• ⚠ WARN OS/2 VendorID value 'IMPA' is not a known registered id. You should set it to your own 4 character code, and register that code with Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/vendorlist.aspx [code: unknown]

⚠ WARN: Stricter unitsPerEm criteria for Google Fonts.

• com.google.fonts/check/unitsperem_strict
• ⚠ WARN Even though unitsPerEm (1000) in this font is reasonable. It is strongly advised to consider changing it to 2000, since it will likely improve the quality of Variable Fonts by avoiding excessive rounding of coordinates on interpolations.

⚠ WARN: Are there caret positions declared for every ligature?

• com.google.fonts/check/ligature_carets
• ⚠ WARN This font lacks caret position values for ligature glyphs on its GDEF table. [code: lacks-caret-pos]

⚠ WARN: Is there kerning info for non-ligated sequences?

• com.google.fonts/check/kerning_for_non_ligated_sequences

• ⚠ WARN GPOS table lacks kerning info for the following non-ligated sequences:

  • f + f
  • f + i
  • i + l
  • colon + f
  • f + l
  • l + a
  • a + g
  • g + two
  • two + colon
  • g + colon
  • colon + one
  • one + eight
  • eight + F
  • F + colon

  [code: lacks-kern-info]

⚠ WARN: Check for points out of bounds.

• com.google.fonts/check/points_out_of_bounds
• ⚠ WARN The following glyphs have coordinates which are out of bounds:
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  This happens a lot when points are not extremes, which is usually bad. However, fixing this alert by adding points on extremes may do more harm than good, especially with italics, calligraphic-script, handwriting, rounded and other fonts. So it is common to ignore this message

Summary

💔 ERROR	🔥 FAIL	⚠ WARN	💤 SKIP	ℹ INFO	🍞 PASS
0	15	6	41	6	85
0%	10%	4%	27%	4%	56%

[gyvrjoe]

I predict this typeface is going to see fairly widespread adoption as it fails nicely to system fonts (Roboto, San Francisco, Source) I'd dearly love for it to be available in Google apps.

[joe12south]

🦗🦗🦗

[franvelasco]

Is there any update? Can I help with anything?

[wouterds]

What's the status on this? Can't wait to start using this in my projects!

[m4rc1e]

Family is now in production https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Public+Sans. Enjoy.

[joe12south]

Woot!

[samlinville]

Hi! Is there any estimation of when this will appear in Google Apps?

[m4rc1e]

I'll see if we can get this into Sheets and Docs.

[Logoholik]

Any update on adding it into Docs?

[maya]

@m4rc1e any update on getting it into Sheets and Docs?

[m4rc1e]

Hopefully next week.

[maya]

@m4rc1e noticed it wasn't added last week. Do you have an updated timeframe?

[m4rc1e]

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Public+Sans

[maya]

@m4rc1e yes, am aware it's published to fonts.google.com (looks great!), though you previously mentioned planning to add it into Google Sheets and Google Docs apps and that's what my question was referring to. Can you clarify?

[Logoholik]

@maya @m4rc1e High hopes for that feature over here too! :)

[m4rc1e]

I'll ask for the family to be pushed to docs today.

Apologies for the delay. Our production push has been broken for the past fortnight. It should be fixed now.

[m4rc1e]

Ok Public Sans should be available in Google Docs.