Add M+ Fonts (MPlus)

[rayshan]

http://mplus-fonts.osdn.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/design/index-en.html

They're really beautifully designed fonts, including proportional and fixed-halfwidth Latin, fixed-fullwidth Japanese character sets.

Most recent release is here: http://mplus-fonts.osdn.jp/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/mplus_fonts/mplus_fonts-141126-2.html

License is "free": http://mplus-fonts.osdn.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/index-en.html#license

Thanks!

[davelab6]

License is "free": http://mplus-fonts.osdn.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/index-en.html#license

Yeah, that is not an acceptable libre license, sadly.

I guess if someone else redistributes them under OFL and is willing to indemnify Google, I could accept that version's Latin part.

Serving CJK is not currently possible, although https://github.com/googlei18n/TachyFont is worth keeping an eye on :)

[rayshan]

I see, thanks. The author Coji Morishita has indicated willingness to submit to Google Fonts previously: http://osdn.jp/projects/mplus-fonts/forums/3403/31246/. I just pinged that thread again. Let's see if we hear back.

[davelab6]

I also replied on the thread. This looks very positive :)

[rayshan]

Hi @davelab6, I got in touch with the author Coji, and he asked me to help him prepare a new repo with the latest TESTFLIGHT-060 release and with OFL license. The repo is here:
https://github.com/rayshan/mplus-fonts

I also asked Coji to sign the Google CLA and he's done so. I think we're ready to proceed. Can you please take a look?

[davelab6]

Awesome, thanks for your work on this @rayshan :) I filed rayshan/mplus-fonts#1

The family table naming scheme needs fixing up, as described in http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Font_Info_&_Metadata.html

[rayshan]

You're welcome! I'll change the license file and relay the message about fixing the table naming scheme.

[mandel59]

Hello all,
I'm supporting maintenance of the scripts. I've prepared git repository to build M+ outline fonts. https://github.com/mandel59/mplus_build
I'm at work on modifying the scripts.

[mandel59]

Whether weight of thin fonts is 100 or 250? According to Google Fonts, weight of Roboto Thin is 100, but the table says value >= 250 and <= 900 in steps of 50.

[davelab6]

Roboto is wrong at the moment.

[rayshan]

@mandel59 thanks 🎉

[rayshan]

Ping @davelab6 - the family table naming scheme changes are ready for your review here:
rayshan/mplus-fonts#2

[mandel59]

Could you permit that the weight of thin is 100? I've examined whether there are fonts whose weight is 250 in Google Fonts, but I couldn't have found such fonts. Fonts that have more than one thinner weight gives the thinnest weight to be 100 or 200. This might be because CSS currently doesn't allow font-weight values to be 250. I've also found GTK+ apps using Pango work badly with such odd weight.

[rayshan]

Friendly happy 2017 ping for @davelab6 and team. Still very much looking forward to having this beautiful font available on Google Fonts. Let me know if there's anything I can do to nudge it along.

[kyoshino]

It's already available via Early Access.

[rayshan]

@kyoshino thanks! It's also here:
https://fonts.google.com/earlyaccess

How did I miss the early access program?! It only has the Japanese character set, not Latin. So this issue is still valid.

[kyoshino]

M+ has graduated from Early Access. https://twitter.com/googlefonts/status/1032724526851936256

[rayshan]

@kyoshino thanks! Looks like only 1p is available in Japanese and Latin characters. Monospace variant is not. We're half way there. I will leave this issue open.

[davelab6]

Which specific M+ family should be added?

[rayshan]

@davelab6 spoke to Coji, he recommends:

1. M+ MN Type-1
2. M+ P Type-1
3. M+ C Type-1
4. M+ C Type-2

Coji also sends his regards to you. I don't think he's on GitHub. Happy to continue to relay messages and help in any way.

[waldyrious]

Ping following the discussion at Homebrew/homebrew-cask-fonts#2246 — what needs to happen for this to move forward? I'm happy to help out if I'm given the right pointers :)

[simongcc]

@rayshan Hello! I found that this font is beautiful and almost support all Traditional Chinese characters!
My friend and I would like to help if it is possible?
What could we do to add the missing pieces?

Sorry that if it sounds too layman or rookie here.

[RosaWagner]

closing this in favor of #3374 which is linked to PR