Typography BoF

Birds of a Feather session to discuss the use of typography in GNOME.

Topics

Feel free to add to the list:

• Future of Cantarell and possible alternatives - what are the issues, what can be done, is it better to switch to something else?
• Use of type on the websites and print - what are our typefaces here?
• Use of type in UI design:
  • What kind of font(s) do we want?
  • Which type conventions do we want to use (eg. light weight for headings, vs bold or slab).
  • Do we want to use several typefaces?
• Build tools for open fonts
• Metadata in font packages

• OpenType feature support

Attendees

• AllanDay

• NathanWillis

• BehdadEsfahbod

• NirbheekChauhan

• CarlosSoriano

Notes from the session

• Nirbheek's notes