diff --git a/OFL.txt b/OFL.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0bce9c15fe --- /dev/null +++ b/OFL.txt @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +Copyright 2017 The Roboto Flex Project Authors (https://github.com/TypeNetwork/Roboto-Flex) + +This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. +This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: +http://scripts.sil.org/OFL + + +----------------------------------------------------------- +SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007 +----------------------------------------------------------- + +PREAMBLE +The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide +development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation +efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and +open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership +with others. + +The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and +redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The +fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, +redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved +names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives, +however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The +requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply +to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives. + +DEFINITIONS +"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright +Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. 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These can be +included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or +in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or +binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user. + +3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font +Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding +Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as +presented to the users. + +4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font +Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any +Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the +Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written +permission. + +5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, +must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be +distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to +remain under this license does not apply to any document created +using the Font Software. + +TERMINATION +This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are +not met. + +DISCLAIMER +THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF +MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT +OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE +COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, +INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING +FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM +OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8112db822f --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +# Roboto Flex + +This project upgrades Roboto to become a more powerful Variable Font, allowing you to do more to express and finesse your text. + +**[Download latest development TTF](https://github.com/TypeNetwork/Roboto-Flex/blob/main/fonts/RobotoFlex%5BGRAD%2CXOPQ%2CXTRA%2CYOPQ%2CYTAS%2CYTDE%2CYTFI%2CYTLC%2CYTUC%2Copsz%2Cslnt%2Cwdth%2Cwght%5D.ttf)** + +## Background + +_This project was commissioned by Google, but is not an official Google project, and Google provides no support for it._ + +Roboto became a flagship Google brand typeface in 2011, as the Android operating system UI type. +It is prominently positioned in the global design community, with Google using it on Android, in web apps, and for branded content at small sizes. +It is the default face of the Material Design Specification, and available to everyone under an unrestrictive license, it has been adopted by more than 11M websites and has become the most popular family in the Google Fonts library. + +In 2016 the OpenType format was [updated](https://medium.com/@tiro/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-opentype-variable-fonts-12ba6cd2369) with a revised version of Apple's “TrueType GX” run-time interpolation technology. +The primary motivation for the OpenType specification authors to do this was obtaining dramatic reductions in the file-size of large font families, such as Google's [Noto](https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/tree/main/unhinted/variable-ttf) fonts. +They want to make variable fonts *meaningful*. + +Variable fonts create new typographic possibilities, and could improve Material Specification Typography guidance in myriad ways. +Today the Material typography guidelines include adjustments for tracking and font weight that are used to improve typographic-color and texture. +Variations allow those adjustments to be built-in and “just work.” + +After the public announcement of the technology, the Google Fonts team commissioned Font Bureau to develop a pilot project, [Amstelvar](https://github.com/TypeNetwork/Amstelvar), that demonstrates a novel approach that uses a system of inter-related axes. +This increases the fine typographic control available to typographers, and enables a new kind of “parametric” typography. + +Learn more about this new typography at [variablefonts.typenetwork.com](https://variablefonts.typenetwork.com) + +## License + +Fonts (UFO, TTF) are available under the [SIL Open Font License v1.1](OFL.txt) + +Scripts and documentation are available under the [Apache 2.0](/scripts/LICENSE.txt) + +## Fonts + +The actual TTFs you should use is in `/fonts` + +Latest VF [Download latest development TTF](https://github.com/TypeNetwork/Roboto-Flex/blob/main/fonts/RobotoFlex%5BGRAD%2CXOPQ%2CXTRA%2CYOPQ%2CYTAS%2CYTDE%2CYTFI%2CYTLC%2CYTUC%2Copsz%2Cslnt%2Cwdth%2Cwght%5D.ttf) + +Static Instances [fonts/instances](https://github.com/TypeNetwork/Roboto-Flex/blob/static-instances/fonts/instances) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/fonts/RobotoFlex[GRAD,XOPQ,XTRA,YOPQ,YTAS,YTDE,YTFI,YTLC,YTUC,opsz,slnt,wdth,wght].ttf b/fonts/RobotoFlex[GRAD,XOPQ,XTRA,YOPQ,YTAS,YTDE,YTFI,YTLC,YTUC,opsz,slnt,wdth,wght].ttf new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1a976be62d Binary files /dev/null and b/fonts/RobotoFlex[GRAD,XOPQ,XTRA,YOPQ,YTAS,YTDE,YTFI,YTLC,YTUC,opsz,slnt,wdth,wght].ttf differ diff --git a/fonts/instances/GRAD-50.zip b/fonts/instances/GRAD-50.zip new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f3430b5344 Binary files /dev/null and b/fonts/instances/GRAD-50.zip differ diff --git a/fonts/instances/GRAD0.zip b/fonts/instances/GRAD0.zip new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e870e688b4 Binary files /dev/null and b/fonts/instances/GRAD0.zip differ diff --git a/fonts/instances/GRAD50.zip b/fonts/instances/GRAD50.zip new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ffa5aa9409 Binary files /dev/null and b/fonts/instances/GRAD50.zip differ