gf-docs
A quick guide to finalizing new families for Google Fonts.
Useful resources
Tools
Docs
Finalizing process
Repo layout
Arrange your repo into the following folder structure - the following are mandatory:
.
├── AUTHORS.txt
├── CONTRIBUTORS.txt
├── OFL.txt
├── README.md
├── fonts
│ └── Notable-Regular.ttf
└── sources
└── Notable.glyphs
A good project to study is github.com/googlefonts/mavenproFont
This has additional optional parts, like the /docs folder, which is a good place to put automatically generated content, or image files used in the README. Eg,
├── docs
│ └── sample.png
Note that the /docs folder is special, because its contents is directly available to web browsers.
Design Inspection
Check each glyph is good. A simple way to do this is copy all glyphs in GlyphsApp into a tab.
Update Metadata so it’s correct
Inside Glyphsapp with all open .glyphs sources execute the following:
Run Script > Google Fonts > QA. Fix everything until it clears
Double Check designer/meta info
Ensure copyright, author names etc are correct.
Generate TTFs and check with Fontbakery
Fix all FAILs / ERRORs until the cupcake appears. If problems cannot be cleared, post an issue to https://github.com/googlefonts/fontbakery
Push changes to git!
Push your latest revision to github, and file a request for a family update or publication on https://github.com/google/fonts/issues