googlefonts / oswaldfont

repo for the Oswald font family

Oswald

Oswald is a reworking of the classic gothic typeface style historically represented by designs such as 'Alternate Gothic'. The characters of Oswald have been re-drawn and reformed to better fit the pixel grid of standard digital screens. Oswald is designed to be used freely across the internet by web browsers on desktop computers, laptops and mobile devices.

Completed tasks:

• Converted project files to .glyphs
• Fixed tasks listed in ProjectChecklist.md and internal planning spreadsheet.
• Corrected OpenType features
• Changed upm from 2048 to 1000
• Fix glyphs, anchors and components
• Fix MM compatibility
• Add instances
• Vertical Metrics

Todo:

• Improve README.md
• Intelligently import .fea file so we get kern classes
• Run fonts through Font bakery and Ship fonts

oswaldfont's Issues

Hinted OTF

Hello,
Please release OTF version with psautohint.
(on Windows with smoothing disabled, hinted OTF version of the font at small sizes looks much better)

Add support for monospaced numbers

It would be very useful to add a monospaced numerals option:

Wrong height for capital cyrillic letter У

The tail of the capital У (and also Ў) letter must be over the line, not under.

Oswald acting up and won't download all the font weights

After trying to download the font several times from Google and DaFont to edit a PDF using Oswald Light and Extra Light, the font won't download correctly and I'm unable to uniformly update my document.

Consider type.today's Cyrillic review

https://type.today/en/journal/neo#Oswald

Missing characters for different font weights - MacOS Sierra & Chrome

I have an issue where websites using the Oswald font are only rendering a fraction of the characters (so, for example "HI THERE" might appear as "HHR").

After much Googling I found no solution, but there is another person who reports exactly the same issue (same OS, same missing characters):
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15133278?hl=en

There's a screenshot in the linked post above, which makes the issue very obvious.

Any ideas? I'm at a loss as to how to even debug this.

Ӊ interpolation issue

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald?preview.text=%D3%89&preview.text_type=custom

See https://type.today/en/journal/neo

DSIG table needs removed

FontBakery gives this warning This font has a digital signature (DSIG table) which is only required - even if only a placeholder - on old programs like MS Office 2013 in order to work properly. The current recommendation is to completely remove the DSIG table. [code: found-DSIG] .

Add support for combining accent on webkit (macOS/iOS safari)

Test URL:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald?preview.text=O%CC%82%20%C3%94&preview.text_type=custom
First letter:
U+004F : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
U+0302 : COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT {hat}
Second letter:
U+00D4 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX

On windows, both letters are rendered correctly:

On Apple systems, the first letter isn't rendered:

Copyright?

Can I use it free for commercial projects?

Interpolation Issues

Interpolation issues - Oswald.glyphs as of 2021-06-26
ҝ - 049D - kaverticalstroke-cy
ҹ - 04B9 - cheverticalstroke-cy
₵ - 20B5 - cedi
₲ - 20B2 - guarani

Letter spacing broken in Chrome 76 and above (Windows)

It works in current stable (75), but not in Beta (76) or newest Canary (77).

line spacing is too big

even with line spacing 0 we see big space between lines when we use Oswald Regular

all styles are the same in firefox 67 mac os x 10.12

all styles are the same in firefox 67 mac os x 10.12, see screenshot of https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald from Firefox 67. also when used on website the issue persists, all font styles are the same. in Chrome 75 works as expected. Firefox worked i'd say 2 months ago..

update metadata

Can we remove my name from the metadata?

before:

In 2016 the family was updated by Kalapi Gajjar and Alexei Vanyashin to complete the work started by Vernon, and support languages that use the Cyrillic script. In January 2019, it was updated with a variable font Weight axis.

after:

In 2016 the family was updated by Kalapi Gajjar to complete the work started by Vernon. In January 2019, it was updated with a variable font Weight axis.

I actually didn't work on Oswald in 2016. I fixed a single diacritic issue without touching Cyrillic. I reviewed Vernon's Cyrillic in 2013, from that time the Cyrillic quality was 3/5 stars. This project would benefit from refining the Cyrillic.

Add 0x02bb (ʻ)

I'd like to request just one more character to make all languages currently supported 100%

Language (code)	Coverage	%Coverage	Missing Characters
Uzbek (uz)	86/87	98	\u02bb (ʻ)

Italic font style not working in Chrome

It states in the file FONTLOG.txt that italic has been added to all font logs (as of 2013), but it does not work in Chrome (it does work in Safari) and there is no mention of italics what so ever on the website. What is the status of italics in general and italic+Chrome specifically?

Mathematical signs are misaligned

The horizontal bar of + − ÷ should be the same, and aligned vertically (in the middle) with × =.

Empty Cyrillic Glyphs on Google Fonts

Some Cyrillic glyphs do not contain outlines

These fonts are being served

It's pretty crazy but nobody has raised this issue yet.

Imo, this is a fairly serious issue. If a user types any of these characters, they don't get a fallback, they just get whitespace. I hope #9 fixes this. @NDISCOVER did you add outlines for these?