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Looking at OSP's DIN-like typeface Logisoso, I agree that a double storey "g" would be a fine addition as a stylistic alternate glyph or the default: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/logisoso/

• Gidole
• Gidole Play

Hi,
I know there is already a closed issue on this topic (#23), but I think I have some other reasons for the request.
I run Arch Linux + XFCE and is new to fonts. For me, the fonts available as OTF appear much better (a bit bolder; as you see in image below). So I cloned Gidole source and saved an OTF of Gidole-Regular using FontForge. But when using the generated OTF file, the font seems to shift position (base shifts a bit higher; as you see in image below) and looks misaligned (not vertically centered) in text fields.

Am I doing it wrong using FontForge or are there some techicalities that I am missing (issues like how my system handles OTF etc.)? Would it be possible to provide a proper OTF file?
Thanks.

Hi!

The font looks very nice, but I couldn't fond it on any CDN. There are two common used CDNs where one can place Gidole for free: https://www.jsdelivr.com/ and https://cdnjs.com/. By creating additional small files, the next versions of Gidole published on GitHub will be automatically posted to the CDNs. Everything is very easy and I could help in doing it if it would be required. One need just add the Gidole files to the corresponding GitHub repositories (https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr or/and https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs) via a pull request.

Best wishes!
Oleg

It would be good to include all that text the markdown file :)

To make it a little closer to original DIN and ensure better legibility, why not add a tailed "l" similar to this one for both typefaces: http://myfonts.us/td-5p9XBr

I would personally prefer it as the default "l" glyph. But I would be just as happy with it available as a stylistic alternate.

I have a new item for the wishlist.

The interrobang (‽). I know it isn't a common punctuation mark, but it would be nice to have.

First draft, thoughts?: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3019777/gidole/lazy.pdf

I've made the glyphs so it's just the coding that is needed.

Current link: https://github.com/gidole/sans/blob/master/Resources/Gidole-Regular.ttf?raw=true
Correct link (or move file?): https://github.com/gidole/sans/blob/master/Releases/Gidole-Regular.ttf?raw=true

Would very much appreciate any help on this - even just short comments and suggestions like

r and ß are too close

😄

Since you use the web fonts on the nice website https://gidole.github.io why not include them in the repository?

Drawing

• l with hook
• i with hook
• g that looks like 👓
• u with stem
• single story a
• closed 4
• curly y
• Conventional @ sign
• Dotted zero
• Curved 6
• Curved 9
• Old Style Numerals

Other suggestions?

It says

The OFL license let’s you do almost anything.

But that apostrophe is wrong. The development of let’s is let us, which makes no sense here.

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/lets.html

I know I may be nitpicking, but these errors make the project look unprofessional 😺

Feedback very much wanted.

Status:

• draw all characters
• correct width
• correct spacing
• correct kerning

Not completely happy with current design

Would love am .otf file for Gidole on GitHub to complement the Gidolinya .otf file.

I'll put different surveys here from time to time when I can't make up my mind.

Help me pick the default "l", "y" and "u"
UPDATE: Vote has ended

Rfn isn't good for github projects, it prevents pull requests

I don't know if any ligatures are needed for this font but leaving it open to suggestions

Can we have small caps in Gidole? :-)

Thank you very much for this stunningly beautiful font! Looking forward to the italic and other styles.

Just wanted to mention that German special characters are currently not supported. As it is a DIN variant, I guess this is important ;-)

• ä
• Ä
• ö
• Ö
• ü
• Ü
• ß
• ẞ (Capital ß—new and supported by few typefaces so far)

Any ideas or input?

Type animation of some kind could be cool

Need someone who writes and reads cyrillic to supervise.

Not sure I'm satisfied with the current ampersand for Gidole Play - suggestions more than welcome

Hi Andreas

Thanks for the great font! I've used it for French documents, it's awesome 👍.
Will you add later ligatures support?

Have a nice day 😃

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/gidole

"The license for this font is the SIL OFL license. This license does not allow us to redistribute derivative versions of the font without wholesale name changes inside and out of the font. Until we figure out a reasonable method of delivering these to you and complying with the license, you will have to use the Webfont Generator yourself on these, renaming the fonts appropriately."

Apparently by terms of license FontSquirrel cannot provide your font's webfont kit. Was this intentional? Being an open-source project I don't believe it is, you may be interested in shooting FontSquirrel a tweet or mail about it.

Alternates

• Curved 6
• Curved 9
• Old Style Numerals
• Small Caps

Font family

• Italic
• Bold
• Monospace

Glyph wishlist

• Checkmark http://graphemica.com/✓
• Alternate 3 for cyrillic

This is the thread where you post a link to or screenshot of Gidole in use. You can also tweet to @andreaslarsendk.

I'd love to see it in use.

• Gidole (halfway done)
• Gidole Play

Dear Larsenwork,

Your fonts Gidole and Gidolinya are absolutely amazing! Will you be able to convert them into web fonts against a payment?

Kind regards,

Francis

While using the font in a web application, any combination of + char e. g. (a or `x) results in a character with a grave accent. There are similar issues with a caret (i.e. ^) sign in combination with another character. The issue is very much similar to the one described here regarding the noto sans fonts (notofonts/noto-fonts#736, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12655054). I've included the type-face as follows:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Gidole';
    src: url('../fonts/Gidole/Gidole-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

Using Noto Sans:

Using Gidole:

Interestingly, this issue only pertains to the *.ttf fonts available for download. The Gidole homepagemakes use of a *.woff variant of Gidole (hosted here: http://gidole.github.io/fonts/Gidole.woff) that does not suffer the same problem.

This is probably obvious, but I would love the inclusion of official oblique/italic styling. Particularly when the current Gidole Regular looks really readable at low sizes. Making it suitable for body text.

Is a fixed width planed version of the Gidole font?

Thanks a lot!

Draft of my first fidel...trying to keep it gidole style while staying true to the ge'ez script

I've run into a weird issue with the font where there is insufficient clearing between the apostrophe single quotation mark and neighbouring glyphs. I've seen this across several apps, as shown in the image below. Interestingly IE and Wordpad seem to render the apostrophe single quotation mark with the correct spacing. I don't know whether it's a quirk with the font rendering system or whether it's something with the font itself. Anyone else can replicate this issue?

Platform: Windows 7.

edit: its actually the single quotation mark, not the apostrophe.

We currently use a similar font that doesn't have nearly as many weights - would love to have a rounded version though <3

I'm revisiting many of the curved characters...any thoughts/feedback?

Would be great to have this as an entry https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-fonts

Gidolinya's curves and fixed-width would make it useful as a single line font for engraving using CNC machining and drawing animations.

Most vector programs can only convert text to outlines, and there is no simple method to convert glyph outlines to a single stroke. I found some techniques to trace the centerline path, though none of these would properly preserve the Euler spirals of the Gidolinya letters and are not elegant solutions.

Any ideas on how to achieve this with SVG paths?

These are a handful of links about variable fonts:

https://webkit.org/blog/7051/variable-fonts-on-the-web/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Fonts/Variable_Fonts_Guide
https://medium.com/variable-fonts/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-opentype-variable-fonts-12ba6cd2369

If Gidole is to tread the variable fonts path, it could hopefully address #18 and other variant-related issues.

Dear developer,
Could you adjust the character "É"?
This one no apppears the accent on uppercase, but it works perfectly with lowercase.

Thanks for this great job! This font is awesome :)

Best.