hafontia-zz / assistant

Contemporary Hebrew + Latin Fonts - Natan Hebrew type family

Assistant

Assistant is a Hebrew type family designed by Ben Nathan to complement the Source Sans Pro Latin fonts by Paul Hunt at Adobe Type.

Hebrew type family designed by Ben Nathan. Sans Serif contemporary Hebrew design with Latin by "Source Sans Pro" by Paul Hunt, Adobe. The family contains 6 styles, from Extra Light to Black.

assistant's Issues

Problem with IE

Hi, I am using Assitant and it works fine in chrome but it is not working on IE(11). Is it a known issue?

Lowercase "j" display issues

Hi, love this font and use it frequently at work, but I've noticed the lowercase "j" letter consistently displays as slightly more bold than other letters. This sample is from GoogleDocs:

Minor things

• vertical metrics aren't quite right per https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-docs/blob/master/ProjectChecklist.md#vertical-metrics

Kdenlive displaying issues

First of all, thank you for this great font!
Second, there are problems displaying text with Assistant font in Kdenlive. The font is displayed corruptly.
In most cases, there are glitches. But in some cases, the font is displayed fully malformed.

קודם כול, תודה רבה על הפונט המעולה!‏
שנית, יש בעיות בהצגת הטקסט עם פונט אסיסטנט בתוך
.Kdenlive
הפונט מוצג באופן בלתי־תקין.‏
ברוב המקרים, ישנם גליצ׳ים קטנים. אך במספר מקרים, הפונט מוצג באופן פגום לחלוטין.‏

Backticks render over eachother

There seems to be an issue with the font when rendering multiple backticks. It layers them over each other, instead of next to each other.

This seems to happen in every browser except Safari.

Request: Italic style?

Hi,

Love this font dearly. However — there is no italic — and the browser faux-italic looks horrible :(

Is there an italic style available?

Use ttfautohint -I setting to include details in files

ttfautohint can include the details used to run it in the name table when the -I option is used; the TTFs at 0016e0c didn't have this information included.

Does not download as one font family - Styles are read as separate font families in FontBook

Does not download as one font family - Styles are read as separate font families in FontBook
Font styles in the separate families are also incorrectly labeled as 'regular'.

More descriptive description of the design in README

Please describe the project in more detail in the README :)

A few more characters

I believe 6 more characters are needed:

$ pyfontaine --collection subsets --set subset-hebrew --missing Natan-Regular.ttf 
...
              U+20aa  ₪  NEW SHEQEL SIGN
              U+25cc  ◌  DOTTED CIRCLE
              U+05c0  ׀  HEBREW PUNCTUATION PASEQ
              U+05c3  ׃  HEBREW PUNCTUATION SOF PASUQ
              U+05f3  ׳  HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH
              U+05f4  ״  HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM

Interpolation problems in `Assistant[wght].ttf`

Hello!

This is an automatically-generated report about possible interpolation problems in Assistant[wght].ttf, as found in the Google Fonts catalog.

To download a PDF version of this report with helpful visuals of the problems, click here; Or to view it on the GitHub website, click here.

The report follows:

Glyph gammalatin was not compatible:
  Masters: '', 'wght=800.0':
    Contour order differs: [0, 1, 2] in '', [0, 2, 1] in 'wght=800.0'

This report was generated using the fonttools varLib.interpolatable tool. We understand that sometimes the tool generates false-positives. Particularly for more complicated font designs. If you did not find this report useful, please accept our apologies and ignore / close it.

To give feedback about this report, please file an issue or open a discussion at fonttools.

Remove stale ufo branch

https://github.com/hafontia/Natan/tree/ufo exists but its stale, I think.

To delete it with Terminal, run

git push origin :ufo

Update repo description

The summary at the top of https://github.com/hafontia/PortSansHebrew/ is ver 1 but should be something like,

Hebrew font family

Ccedillacomb.cap issue

A few cap diacritics have issues

Request: Install the font thru Homebrew cask?

Hi,

I really love this font. Is it possible to make it available to install thru Homebrew for OSX? :)

Best regards

Request: add small caps opentype feature

hi guys, great job on this font!
do you have any plans to add small caps or other ot features?

Weight Axis variable font

@hafontia

Hello Nathan,

The Google fonts team would love to see a variable fonts version of ‘Assistant'. They have commissioned us @TypeNetwork to work on upgrading a number of font projects to be variable fonts with a single weight axis.

In order to achieve the highest quality and most efficient long term results we will be converting the source data from Glyphs to UFO. The new source data will be generated in the RoboFont environment using fontmake and ttfautohint. There has been progress on tools to make an easy path to move between the Glyphs and Robofont environment.

During the process we will be looking to improve any errors while preserving how the font appears and renders on different platforms.

We have started by making a fork off of this git repository. There is currently a beta VF.ttf on the TN fea-conv-ufo fork. https://github.com/TypeNetwork/Assistant/tree/fea-ufo-conv/Fonts

The upgrade will be completed for you in the near future. When the proposed final font is approved by Google they will accept a pull request.

We hope this answers some of your questions about the process. Please let us know if you have any additional comments.

Best Regards,

Jill Pichotta
Vice President
Type Network
[email protected]

Letter Ç in uppercase not available.

Hello, my language is PT-BR and I use Assistant in a digital product I work for. In a given situation, we used Ç in its uppercase version and it was replaced by C. Is there a way to fix that?

Thanks,
Thiago Esser

Rename family

• Do not include the script name in your family name (see discussion.)
• Since this is meant to be primarily a Hebrew family, perhaps a more 'Hebrew' name transliterated into latin would be good

fi ligature issue

google/fonts#391