To-Do list to Update Gayathri on GF

[vv-monsalve]

This would be the To-Do list for the onboarding process for Gayathri.

• Solve the remaining Fails: Google Fonts Latin Core coverage; License file name.
• Inspect the Warns and ensure the reported is ok in Gayathri. Particularly the ones about GDEF table.
• Review Outline Quality Checklist and ensure everything is ok. Some of the reported Warns are related to it.
• Review/adjust the spacing and kerning
• Include the Bio information for the Designer Catalog.

[vv-monsalve]

Reported Fail after v1.220 fonts

🔥 FAIL: Check OFL body text is correct. (com.google.fonts/check/license/OFL_body_text)

Check OFL body text is correct. Often users will accidently delete parts of the body text.

• 🔥 FAIL The OFL.txt body text is incorrect. Please use https://github.com/googlefonts/Unified-Font-Repository/blob/main/OFL.txt as a template. You should only modify the first line. [code: incorrect-ofl-body-text]

License URL should be https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

[vv-monsalve]

New To-Do list updated after v1.220 fonts

• Solve the remaining Fails: Mainly the OFL (see above comment) and ideally Google Fonts Latin Core coverage
• Inspect the Warns and confirm the reported is ok in Gayathri. Particularly the ones about GDEF table
• Review/adjust the spacing and kerning issue with few remaining cases.
• Inspect and solve the changes on the diffenator report

[santhoshtr]

FAIL: Check OFL body text is correct. (com.google.fonts/check/license/OFL_body_text)

Fixed in 018f9c4

[santhoshtr]

New version 1.230 has these fixes

[vv-monsalve]

Hi @santhoshtr, the copyright year in the fonts (2022) differs to the year in OFL.txt (2023).

Otoh, the reported regression on diacritic marks is still present in the font. Some are heavier now and missaligned.

[santhoshtr]

Hi @vv-monsalve,

Hi @santhoshtr, the copyright year in the fonts (2022) differs to the year in OFL.txt (2023).

Fixed in d2e826c, available in a minor release Version1.231

Otoh, the reported regression on diacritic marks is still present in the font. Some are heavier now and missaligned.

This is expected from the bug fix aefe9f1.

Gayathri won't have any more updates on these latin glyphs, we will fix only major bugs if any for the primary script(Malayalam).

• Gayathri is primarily a Malayalam typeface. To servce the Malayalam speaking demography, all of our fonts has basic English support too. But latin, extended latin are best effort basis and mostly for the requirements of Google fonts.
• There is no incentives of any kind to fine tune that glyphset or known serious users
• Gayathri was designed in 2018 and designer is not actively working on it

I hope this clarifies and we will be able to update this verion in Google fonts so that it can be reintroduced in Google drive. Thanks.