Re: [Snowdrift-design] font roulette

2017-01-28 Thread Dave Crossland
On 28 January 2017 at 16:58, Aaron Wolf  wrote:

> Great, Dave! Was it because you were aware of our troubles with lack of
> italics in using Nunito? ;)
>

Now I see this thread I do remember you guys complaining ;) But in fact no
it was more on the merits of the face :)


> Regarding the "bug" point: is the different height for crossbar in A and
> ÷ a "bug" to report?
>

Please post a screenshot :)
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Re: [Snowdrift-design] font roulette

2017-01-28 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi

I commissioned this. The bugs can be reported on
github.com/Google/fonts/issues

On Jan 28, 2017 11:54 AM, "Aaron Wolf"  wrote:

> On 01/28/2017 07:03 AM, mray wrote:
> > I'm not kidding: Maybe we go back to Nunito again after all!
> >
> > Turns out Jacques Le Bailly not only extended Adam Vernons "Nunito"
> > (Adam passed away 2016) to have proper italics and more weights, but
> > there is also "Nunito Sans" a new version of Nunito without rounded
> > terminals!
> >
> > https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito
> > https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito+Sans
> >
> > This is awesome and opens an even wider space of solutions while
> > sticking to our initial style!
> >
> > Looking forward to mess around with those fonts...
> >
> >
>
> Very nice! I really have such weak preference here, it should barely be
> mentioned, but I did very much like Nunito except for the lack of
> italics and such. I am *fully* happy to return to using that if you
> choose to go that way. The updates look superb.
>
> Nunito is a particularly balanced and readable font. The subtle
> difference of squared-off vs rounded for the regular vs sans variety is
> interesting. I notice strangely that the capital A and ÷ sign and some
> others have lower bars in Sans for some reason.
>
> In the end, I'm happy enough with anything that's readable and has all
> the style variants.
>
>
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