Blue Ocean is a fork of the typeface VTF Bluu Next by Jean-Baptiste Morizot, now with an expanded weight range redrawn in TrueType quadratic curves by Eli Heuer. The quadratic curve drawing style gives the font a phototypesetting-like quality.
This repository conforms to the Google Fonts Spec, supports the Google Fonts Latin Core character set, and has adopted the Rust Code of Conduct.
A proprietary fork of Bluu Next was released as Bluu Suuperstar by Black Foundry, if you want a version of this typeface with a more traditional outline style and better spacing, please buy a license for the commercial version here: https://black-foundry.com/fonts/bluu-suuperstar
Blue Ocean is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, please see the OFL-FAQ.txt file if you have any legal questions.
Pull requests and new issues are welcome.
All specimens and demo images shown here are generated with DrawBot scripts that are included in this repositorys here: documentation/drawbout
This image compares different forks of Bluu Next by Jean-Baptiste Morizot.
Build scripts and source files are in the sources directory.
To build new fonts, open a Unix-like terminal (Linux, MacOS, WSL) in the sources directory, and run the build script. If you have Python3 installed, this script should set up a temporary virtual environment and install all needed dependencies automatically.
sh build.sh
If you are making a pull request to Google Fonts, add the -gf flag and files will be moved to ~/Google/fonts/ofl/.. after building.
sh build.sh -gf