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

Notes from the session

GUADEC/2015/BOFs/Typography (last edited 2015-08-19 16:21:29 by NirbheekChauhan)