[Marketing] Improve Sintony font?

Committees Marketing
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Dear Marketing Committee,

Thank you for your effort on making OSGeo more beautiful.

Trying to translate new OSGeo promotional material I forund out that one of the new fonts - Sintony - used for our brochures do not support Polish diacritics. Is it possible that we forgot about i18n?
There are more languages with diacritics, based on Latin alphabet. I believe we should support those, as we are a worldwide organization.

One solution might be to improve the font which, to my knowledge, has open license. Is that possible?

Sending also a screenshot showing how bad it might look like.

Best,

Milena Nowotarska
OSGeo Charter Member
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska

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Let’s ask Pim (graphic designer) - perhaps there is a more complete copy of the font? I do not remember what constrains we put on font selection,

Double checking to see if there are any gaps:

  1. Using the following page: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Sintony
  2. And cutting and pasting sentences from https://live.osgeo.org/pl/index.html

I have not been able to find any gaps, do you have an example sentence we can try?

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On 31 July 2017 at 11:56, Milena Nowotarska <milena.osgeo@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Marketing Committee,

Thank you for your effort on making OSGeo more beautiful.

Trying to translate new OSGeo promotional material I forund out that one of the new fonts - Sintony - used for our brochures do not support Polish diacritics. Is it possible that we forgot about i18n?
There are more languages with diacritics, based on Latin alphabet. I believe we should support those, as we are a worldwide organization.

One solution might be to improve the font which, to my knowledge, has open license. Is that possible?

Sending also a screenshot showing how bad it might look like.

Best,

Milena Nowotarska
OSGeo Charter Member
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska

Marketing mailing list
Marketing@lists.osgeo.org
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

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Jody Garnett

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update: When you download the font it looks like you can choose Latin or Latin extended.

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On 31 July 2017 at 11:56, Milena Nowotarska <milena.osgeo@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Marketing Committee,

Thank you for your effort on making OSGeo more beautiful.

Trying to translate new OSGeo promotional material I forund out that one of the new fonts - Sintony - used for our brochures do not support Polish diacritics. Is it possible that we forgot about i18n?
There are more languages with diacritics, based on Latin alphabet. I believe we should support those, as we are a worldwide organization.

One solution might be to improve the font which, to my knowledge, has open license. Is that possible?

Sending also a screenshot showing how bad it might look like.

Best,

Milena Nowotarska
OSGeo Charter Member
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska

Marketing mailing list
Marketing@lists.osgeo.org
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

–
Jody Garnett

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Hi Jody,

I see the gaps, try this sentence:
Zażółć gęślą jaźń.

I do not see any difference when I choose Latin extended on download. The zip file seems to consist the same font files.

Best,
Milena

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2017-07-31 21:16 GMT+02:00 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@gmail.com>:

Let’s ask Pim (graphic designer) - perhaps there is a more complete copy of the font? I do not remember what constrains we put on font selection,

Double checking to see if there are any gaps:

  1. Using the following page: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Sintony
  2. And cutting and pasting sentences from https://live.osgeo.org/pl/index.html

I have not been able to find any gaps, do you have an example sentence we can try?

–
Jody Garnett

On 31 July 2017 at 11:56, Milena Nowotarska <milena.osgeo@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Marketing Committee,

Thank you for your effort on making OSGeo more beautiful.

Trying to translate new OSGeo promotional material I forund out that one of the new fonts - Sintony - used for our brochures do not support Polish diacritics. Is it possible that we forgot about i18n?
There are more languages with diacritics, based on Latin alphabet. I believe we should support those, as we are a worldwide organization.

One solution might be to improve the font which, to my knowledge, has open license. Is that possible?

Sending also a screenshot showing how bad it might look like.

Best,

Milena Nowotarska
OSGeo Charter Member
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska

Marketing mailing list
Marketing@lists.osgeo.org
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

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Thanks Milena, that is what we needed to proceed. Pim works in CEST so we will get a response tomorrow.
If anyone else here is good with fonts please chime in!

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On 31 July 2017 at 14:57, Milena Nowotarska <milena.osgeo@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jody,

I see the gaps, try this sentence:
Zażółć gęślą jaźń.

I do not see any difference when I choose Latin extended on download. The zip file seems to consist the same font files.

Best,
Milena

–

Milena Nowotarska
OSGeo Charter Member
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska

–
Jody Garnett

2017-07-31 21:16 GMT+02:00 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@gmail.com>:

Let’s ask Pim (graphic designer) - perhaps there is a more complete copy of the font? I do not remember what constrains we put on font selection,

Double checking to see if there are any gaps:

  1. Using the following page: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Sintony
  2. And cutting and pasting sentences from https://live.osgeo.org/pl/index.html

I have not been able to find any gaps, do you have an example sentence we can try?

–
Jody Garnett

On 31 July 2017 at 11:56, Milena Nowotarska <milena.osgeo@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Marketing Committee,

Thank you for your effort on making OSGeo more beautiful.

Trying to translate new OSGeo promotional material I forund out that one of the new fonts - Sintony - used for our brochures do not support Polish diacritics. Is it possible that we forgot about i18n?
There are more languages with diacritics, based on Latin alphabet. I believe we should support those, as we are a worldwide organization.

One solution might be to improve the font which, to my knowledge, has open license. Is that possible?

Sending also a screenshot showing how bad it might look like.

Best,

Milena Nowotarska
OSGeo Charter Member
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska

Marketing mailing list
Marketing@lists.osgeo.org
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

6

Response from the meeting was to drop back to different font (even MiriamLibre) in this case. We assume this approach will be needed for other languages as well?

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Jody Garnett

On 31 July 2017 at 14:57, Milena Nowotarska <milena.osgeo@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jody,

I see the gaps, try this sentence:
Zażółć gęślą jaźń.

I do not see any difference when I choose Latin extended on download. The zip file seems to consist the same font files.

Best,
Milena

–

Milena Nowotarska
OSGeo Charter Member
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska

2017-07-31 21:16 GMT+02:00 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@gmail.com>:

Let’s ask Pim (graphic designer) - perhaps there is a more complete copy of the font? I do not remember what constrains we put on font selection,

Double checking to see if there are any gaps:

  1. Using the following page: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Sintony
  2. And cutting and pasting sentences from https://live.osgeo.org/pl/index.html

I have not been able to find any gaps, do you have an example sentence we can try?

–
Jody Garnett

On 31 July 2017 at 11:56, Milena Nowotarska <milena.osgeo@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Marketing Committee,

Thank you for your effort on making OSGeo more beautiful.

Trying to translate new OSGeo promotional material I forund out that one of the new fonts - Sintony - used for our brochures do not support Polish diacritics. Is it possible that we forgot about i18n?
There are more languages with diacritics, based on Latin alphabet. I believe we should support those, as we are a worldwide organization.

One solution might be to improve the font which, to my knowledge, has open license. Is that possible?

Sending also a screenshot showing how bad it might look like.

Best,

Milena Nowotarska
OSGeo Charter Member
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska

Marketing mailing list
Marketing@lists.osgeo.org
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

–
Jody Garnett