File naming convention for Regular and Italic about public-sans

[gosh-darn]

It is typical for type designers to omitt parts of the style name, wherever it does not deviate from the default. Some could even argue that PublicSans-Regular should be shortened to simply PublicSans due to the fact that the regular weight is the default in a font family.
 I am, however, against this school of thought and do, as you suggest, write out the full stylenames. By this logic you would end up with PublicSans-RegularUpright, PublicSans-RegularItalic, PublicSans-BoldUpright andPublicSans-BoldItalic and so on. The upright is also written out for consistency; this way, each style receives the same amount of variables, which looks cleaner and is easier to sort in a filesystem like the one on GitHub.
 If you were to add widths and optical sizes to the mix, you would end up with monstrosities like PublicSans-DisplayCondensedBoldItalic and PublicSans-TextMediumRegularUpright, which I personally think look pretty cool.

[davelab6]

For me this is rational, but it's illogical, because my prime logic is to do what human users expect, not what may be convenient for machines. And fonts have decades of convention to not be named -RegularItalic but just -Italic :)

[dellow]

@davelab6 I'm a human and not a machine, I'd expect RegularItalic BUT I take your point and given you work on Google Fonts I'll concede you probably know more about what other humans expect in font naming logic than I do!

[moyogo]

Imagine the font family is expanded with condensed widths.

By the current convention one should expect PublicSans-Condensed instead of PublicSans-CondensedRegular, and PublicSans-Regular would not be renamed as PublicSans-NormalRegular, nor PublicSans-Italic as PublicSans-NormalItalic.
Similary PublicSans-Regular is not called PublicSans-RegularUpright.

By convention, the default weight, width, slant (or any design axis) style name is dropped when another style name is present.

[maya]

Thanks for the suggestions, but it appears the font is aligned with current font naming conventions.