Update Lexend with Italics

[RosaWagner]

Font Project Git Repo URL:
https://github.com/googlefonts/lexend

Super short description of the upgrade:
Add Italic

cc @otaviopardo

[ithinkihaveacat]

Related issue: googlefonts/lexend#14.

[emmamarichal]

@davelab6 @RosaWagner you can find the fonts exported here: https://github.com/emmamarichal/lexend

remarks:

• I didn't manage to solve this one: 🔥 FAIL: Validate STAT particle names and values match the fallback names in GFAxisRegistry.
• Also, the font was not exporting because of a problem with the glyphs estimate (compatibility problem). The glyphs looked normal, I couldn't figure out the problem. For the moment I just put it in "not exported".
• For now I set up the fonts with a slant axis because that's how it was delivered. But since the axis only goes in one direction (0 to -15), it might be better to set an italic.

Fontbakery report

Fontbakery version: 0.8.10

[1] Family checks

ℹ INFO: Check axis ordering on the STAT table. (com.google.fonts/check/STAT/axis_order)

• ℹ INFO From a total of 1 font files, 0 of them (0.00%) lack a STAT table.

  And these are the most common STAT axis orderings:
  ('HEXP-slnt-wght', 1) [code: summary]

[15] Lexend[HEXP,slnt,wght].ttf

🔥 FAIL: Check variable font instances (com.google.fonts/check/fvar_instances)

• 🔥 FAIL fvar instances are incorrect:

• Add missing instances

Name	current	expected
Thin Italic	N/A	wght=100.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=-15.0
Thin	wght=100.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0	wght=100.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0
ExtraLight Italic	N/A	wght=200.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=-15.0
ExtraLight	wght=200.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0	wght=200.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0
Light Italic	N/A	wght=300.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=-15.0
Light	wght=300.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0	wght=300.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0
Italic	N/A	wght=400.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=-15.0
Regular	wght=400.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0	wght=400.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0
Medium Italic	N/A	wght=500.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=-15.0
Medium	wght=500.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0	wght=500.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0
SemiBold Italic	N/A	wght=600.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=-15.0
SemiBold	wght=600.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0	wght=600.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0
Bold Italic	N/A	wght=700.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=-15.0
Bold	wght=700.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0	wght=700.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0
ExtraBold Italic	N/A	wght=800.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=-15.0
ExtraBold	wght=800.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0	wght=800.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0
Black Italic	N/A	wght=900.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=-15.0
Black	wght=900.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0	wght=900.0, HEXP=0.0, slnt=0.0

🔥 FAIL: Validate STAT particle names and values match the fallback names in GFAxisRegistry. (com.google.fonts/check/STAT/gf_axisregistry)

• 🔥 FAIL On the font variation axis 'HEXP', the name 'Deca' is not among the expected ones (Default) according to the Google Fonts Axis Registry. [code: invalid-name]
• 🔥 FAIL On the font variation axis 'HEXP', the name 'Exa' is not among the expected ones (Default) according to the Google Fonts Axis Registry. [code: invalid-name]
• 🔥 FAIL On the font variation axis 'HEXP', the name 'Giga' is not among the expected ones (Default) according to the Google Fonts Axis Registry. [code: invalid-name]
• 🔥 FAIL On the font variation axis 'HEXP', the name 'Mega' is not among the expected ones (Default) according to the Google Fonts Axis Registry. [code: invalid-name]
• 🔥 FAIL On the font variation axis 'HEXP', the name 'Peta' is not among the expected ones (Default) according to the Google Fonts Axis Registry. [code: invalid-name]
• 🔥 FAIL On the font variation axis 'HEXP', the name 'Tera' is not among the expected ones (Default) according to the Google Fonts Axis Registry. [code: invalid-name]
• 🔥 FAIL On the font variation axis 'HEXP', the name 'Zetta' is not among the expected ones (Default) according to the Google Fonts Axis Registry. [code: invalid-name]

⚠ WARN: Checking OS/2 achVendID. (com.google.fonts/check/vendor_id)

• ⚠ WARN OS/2 VendorID value 'NONE' is not yet recognized. If you registered it recently, then it's safe to ignore this warning message. Otherwise, you should set it to your own unique 4 character code, and register it with Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/vendorlist.aspx
  [code: unknown]

⚠ WARN: Check Google Fonts glyph coverage. (com.google.fonts/check/glyph_coverage)

• ⚠ WARN GF_TransLatin_Arabic is almost fulfilled. Missing codepoints:

  • 0x1E34 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K WITH LINE BELOW)

  • 0x1E35 (LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH LINE BELOW)

  • 0x1E96 (LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW)

  • And 0x02BD (MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA)
    [code: missing-codepoints]

⚠ WARN: Is there kerning info for non-ligated sequences? (com.google.fonts/check/kerning_for_non_ligated_sequences)

• ⚠ WARN GPOS table lacks kerning info for the following non-ligated sequences:

  • f + f

  • f + i

  • And i + l [code: lacks-kern-info]

⚠ WARN: Ensure fonts have ScriptLangTags declared on the 'meta' table. (com.google.fonts/check/meta/script_lang_tags)

• ⚠ WARN This font file does not have a 'meta' table. [code: lacks-meta-table]

⚠ WARN: Check font contains no unreachable glyphs (com.google.fonts/check/unreachable_glyphs)

• ⚠ WARN The following glyphs could not be reached by codepoint or substitution rules:

  • gravecombinator

  • peseta.bold

  • sterling.base

  • uni004A0301

  • uni006A0301

  • uni20A6.bold

  • uni20A9.bold

  • And uni20B1.bold
    [code: unreachable-glyphs]

⚠ WARN: Ensure dotted circle glyph is present and can attach marks. (com.google.fonts/check/dotted_circle)

• ⚠ WARN No dotted circle glyph present [code: missing-dotted-circle]

ℹ INFO: Show hinting filesize impact. (com.google.fonts/check/hinting_impact)

• ℹ INFO Hinting filesize impact:

	Lexend[HEXP,slnt,wght].ttf
Dehinted Size	551.7kb
Hinted Size	551.7kb
Increase	24 bytes
Change	0.0 %
[code: size-impact]

ℹ INFO: Font has old ttfautohint applied? (com.google.fonts/check/old_ttfautohint)

• ℹ INFO Could not detect which version of ttfautohint was used in this font. It is typically specified as a comment in the font version entries of the 'name' table. Such font version strings are currently: ['Version 1.010;gftools[0.9.23]'] [code: version-not-detected]

ℹ INFO: EPAR table present in font? (com.google.fonts/check/epar)

• ℹ INFO EPAR table not present in font. To learn more see When missing EPAR table, just emit INFO alert fonttools/fontbakery#818 [code: lacks-EPAR]

ℹ INFO: Is the Grid-fitting and Scan-conversion Procedure ('gasp') table set to optimize rendering? (com.google.fonts/check/gasp)

• ℹ INFO These are the ppm ranges declared on the gasp table:

PPM <= 65535:
flag = 0x0F
- Use grid-fitting
- Use grayscale rendering
- Use gridfitting with ClearType symmetric smoothing
- Use smoothing along multiple axes with ClearType®
[code: ranges]

ℹ INFO: Check for font-v versioning. (com.google.fonts/check/fontv)

• ℹ INFO Version string is: "Version 1.010;gftools[0.9.23]"
  The version string must ideally include a git commit hash and either a "dev" or a "release" suffix such as in the example below:
  "Version 1.3; git-0d08353-release" [code: bad-format]

ℹ INFO: Font contains all required tables? (com.google.fonts/check/required_tables)

• ℹ INFO This font contains the following optional tables:

  • loca

  • prep

  • GPOS

  • GSUB

  • And gasp [code: optional-tables]

ℹ INFO: List all superfamily filepaths (com.google.fonts/check/superfamily/list)

• ℹ INFO . [code: family-path]

### Summary

💔 ERROR	🔥 FAIL	⚠ WARN	💤 SKIP	ℹ INFO	🍞 PASS	🔎 DEBUG
0	2	6	98	8	113	0
0%	1%	3%	43%	4%	50%	0%

Note: The following loglevels were omitted in this report:

• SKIP
• PASS
• DEBUG

Fontbakery report

Fontbakery version: 0.8.10

[1] Family checks

ℹ INFO: Check axis ordering on the STAT table. (com.google.fonts/check/STAT/axis_order)

• ℹ INFO From a total of 1 font files, 0 of them (0.00%) lack a STAT table.

  And these are the most common STAT axis orderings:
  ('slnt-wght', 1) [code: summary]

[15] LexendMega[slnt,wght].ttf

🔥 FAIL: Check variable font instances (com.google.fonts/check/fvar_instances)

• 🔥 FAIL fvar instances are incorrect:

• Add missing instances

Name	current	expected
Thin Italic	N/A	wght=100.0, slnt=-15.0
Thin	wght=100.0, slnt=0.0	wght=100.0, slnt=0.0
ExtraLight Italic	N/A	wght=200.0, slnt=-15.0
ExtraLight	wght=200.0, slnt=0.0	wght=200.0, slnt=0.0
Light Italic	N/A	wght=300.0, slnt=-15.0
Light	wght=300.0, slnt=0.0	wght=300.0, slnt=0.0
Italic	N/A	wght=400.0, slnt=-15.0
Regular	wght=400.0, slnt=0.0	wght=400.0, slnt=0.0
Medium Italic	N/A	wght=500.0, slnt=-15.0
Medium	wght=500.0, slnt=0.0	wght=500.0, slnt=0.0
SemiBold Italic	N/A	wght=600.0, slnt=-15.0
SemiBold	wght=600.0, slnt=0.0	wght=600.0, slnt=0.0
Bold Italic	N/A	wght=700.0, slnt=-15.0
Bold	wght=700.0, slnt=0.0	wght=700.0, slnt=0.0
ExtraBold Italic	N/A	wght=800.0, slnt=-15.0
ExtraBold	wght=800.0, slnt=0.0	wght=800.0, slnt=0.0
Black Italic	N/A	wght=900.0, slnt=-15.0
Black	wght=900.0, slnt=0.0	wght=900.0, slnt=0.0

⚠ WARN: Checking OS/2 achVendID. (com.google.fonts/check/vendor_id)

• ⚠ WARN OS/2 VendorID value 'NONE' is not yet recognized. If you registered it recently, then it's safe to ignore this warning message. Otherwise, you should set it to your own unique 4 character code, and register it with Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/vendorlist.aspx
  [code: unknown]

⚠ WARN: Check Google Fonts glyph coverage. (com.google.fonts/check/glyph_coverage)

• ⚠ WARN GF_TransLatin_Arabic is almost fulfilled. Missing codepoints:

  • 0x1E34 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K WITH LINE BELOW)

  • 0x1E35 (LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH LINE BELOW)

  • 0x1E96 (LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW)

  • And 0x02BD (MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA)
    [code: missing-codepoints]

⚠ WARN: Is there kerning info for non-ligated sequences? (com.google.fonts/check/kerning_for_non_ligated_sequences)

• ⚠ WARN GPOS table lacks kerning info for the following non-ligated sequences:

  • f + f

  • f + i

  • And i + l [code: lacks-kern-info]

⚠ WARN: Ensure fonts have ScriptLangTags declared on the 'meta' table. (com.google.fonts/check/meta/script_lang_tags)

• ⚠ WARN This font file does not have a 'meta' table. [code: lacks-meta-table]

⚠ WARN: Check font contains no unreachable glyphs (com.google.fonts/check/unreachable_glyphs)

• ⚠ WARN The following glyphs could not be reached by codepoint or substitution rules:

  • gravecombinator

  • peseta.bold

  • sterling.base

  • uni004A0301

  • uni006A0301

  • uni20A6.bold

  • uni20A9.bold

  • And uni20B1.bold
    [code: unreachable-glyphs]

⚠ WARN: Ensure dotted circle glyph is present and can attach marks. (com.google.fonts/check/dotted_circle)

• ⚠ WARN No dotted circle glyph present [code: missing-dotted-circle]

⚠ WARN: Check if OS/2 xAvgCharWidth is correct. (com.google.fonts/check/xavgcharwidth)

• ⚠ WARN OS/2 xAvgCharWidth is 584 but it should be 664 which corresponds to the average of the widths of all glyphs in the font. [code: xAvgCharWidth-wrong]

ℹ INFO: Show hinting filesize impact. (com.google.fonts/check/hinting_impact)

• ℹ INFO Hinting filesize impact:

	LexendMega[slnt,wght].ttf
Dehinted Size	423.6kb
Hinted Size	423.6kb
Increase	24 bytes
Change	0.0 %
[code: size-impact]

ℹ INFO: Font has old ttfautohint applied? (com.google.fonts/check/old_ttfautohint)

• ℹ INFO Could not detect which version of ttfautohint was used in this font. It is typically specified as a comment in the font version entries of the 'name' table. Such font version strings are currently: ['Version 1.010;gftools[0.9.23]'] [code: version-not-detected]

ℹ INFO: EPAR table present in font? (com.google.fonts/check/epar)

• ℹ INFO EPAR table not present in font. To learn more see When missing EPAR table, just emit INFO alert fonttools/fontbakery#818 [code: lacks-EPAR]

ℹ INFO: Is the Grid-fitting and Scan-conversion Procedure ('gasp') table set to optimize rendering? (com.google.fonts/check/gasp)

• ℹ INFO These are the ppm ranges declared on the gasp table:

PPM <= 65535:
flag = 0x0F
- Use grid-fitting
- Use grayscale rendering
- Use gridfitting with ClearType symmetric smoothing
- Use smoothing along multiple axes with ClearType®
[code: ranges]

ℹ INFO: Check for font-v versioning. (com.google.fonts/check/fontv)

• ℹ INFO Version string is: "Version 1.010;gftools[0.9.23]"
  The version string must ideally include a git commit hash and either a "dev" or a "release" suffix such as in the example below:
  "Version 1.3; git-0d08353-release" [code: bad-format]

ℹ INFO: Font contains all required tables? (com.google.fonts/check/required_tables)

• ℹ INFO This font contains the following optional tables:

  • loca

  • prep

  • GPOS

  • GSUB

  • And gasp [code: optional-tables]

ℹ INFO: List all superfamily filepaths (com.google.fonts/check/superfamily/list)

• ℹ INFO . [code: family-path]

### Summary

💔 ERROR	🔥 FAIL	⚠ WARN	💤 SKIP	ℹ INFO	🍞 PASS	🔎 DEBUG
0	1	7	98	8	113	0
0%	0%	3%	43%	4%	50%	0%

Note: The following loglevels were omitted in this report:

• SKIP
• PASS
• DEBUG

[chrissimpkins]

Can we please document what we are waiting on to complete the onboarding of this family update?

[RosaWagner]

We are waiting corrections on the italic styles. I sent an email to the designer to know the status.

[RosaWagner]

Designer answered that he couldn't address the correction until now, will try to deliver in June

[chrissimpkins]

I spoke with Rosalie and Octavio. We've commissioned Octavio to work on another high priority project and will push his Lexend italic revisions and our onboarding back to Q3.

[davelab6]

Per our meeting today I've moved this to Q2 so @octaviopardo has time to focus on another large project :)

[chrissimpkins]

@octaviopardo how does the timing look on this? Something that you still plan to do in Q2?

[octaviopardo]

Yes! Already looking at it

[vv-monsalve]

Job on this project has been resumed with an updated goal that will include both the original instances + Octavio's work on spacing.
The Italics addition is already part of that endeavor.

[arjpar]

Will the Italics be true italics or obliques?

[chrissimpkins]

Moving the onboarding of these updates back to Q3.

[davelab6]

Will the Italics be true italics or obliques?

True :)

[arjpar]

I'm looking forward to this! I can help in any way I can, if needed.