Description
Hello!
I'm writing this issue because I think that Cantarell is a "deprecated" font and in case the project in the future needs a branding according to the logo, maybe a more mainstream font could be used.
Disclaimer: this issue isn't driven by any thought of hate towards GNOME nor the Cantarell font
Reasons:
- GNOME, the main adopter of Cantarell, while there isn't a public announcement, internally there are already issues on the bugtracker by GNOME designers to switch the font of the project. Suggestions are something with wide character support and a bigger community, such as Inter or Noto Sans. [1], [2]
- Cantarell hasn't got any activity on its source code repository in a decade, and in the GNOME repository the last release is from some years ago
- The font itself has rendering problems on Qt programs, looking weird
- Off-topic: Cantarell doesn't have good support for non-latin scripts
Pros:
- Use of a more mainstream font, with support for non-latin scripts (optional) and a wider community (not that optional, but still optional), in case in the future the project needs a branding (I doubt, but who knows)
Cons:
- Maybe labwc maintainers don't like the idea of switching from Cantarell to another font
- Maybe it's a burden doing this
- Maybe the community doesn't like the idea
- Maybe I'm thinking too far
Suggestions:
The idea is to find a font that matches Cantarell look, while having as well an open source license. Mostly it'd be interesting to match the "L" shape, that feels quite characteristic from the logo, I think so
Current font for comparison (extracted from the logo at the website):
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Fira Sans: used originally at Mozilla for FirefoxOS, nowadays it's used by System76 for Pop!OS
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Sans
Has support for some non-latin scritps
Uses OFL
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Nunito: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito
Uses OFL -
Work Sans: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Work+Sans
Uses OFL
Discarded:
- Ubuntu font. Is too attached to the Ubuntu logo and branding. Plus, it uses a license that isn't that much "open" as OFL
Other ideas:
- Use a monospace font (thoughts?)
- Remove the "labwc" word from the logo and leave only the cube
Sigh: this is a nonsense issue
Maintainer, feel free to close this in case it's not needed