Comments on: Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source type family

By: Miguel Sousa

Miguel Sousa — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:28:06 +0000

In reply to L.. Thanks. Please submit the request at https://github.com/adobe/source-sans-pro/issues

By: L.

L. — Mon, 20 May 2013 02:15:02 +0000

Thanks for a very nice font!
Could you add support for U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (useful for French typography)?

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:09:15 +0000

I fully agree with building a font for comfortable prolonged reading, so many applications do not provide a clear font which is frustrating as an end user.

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 04:48:00 +0000

Looks really good, nice one on the font! It’s a very clean looking font and is very professional at the same time.

By: KD33

KD33 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:43:00 +0000

In reply to Teg. Ubuntu is not the most popular GNU/Linux distribution. That honour goes to Linux Mint.

By: KD33

KD33 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:59:00 +0000

I’ve just used FontSquirrel’s @font-face tool to use all four available stylistic sets in the regular and bold weights of the font at once. Do I have to rename the font now? If so, will you please grant me permission to use the Reserved Font Name for these two weights? (There is a tiny chance that I may be redistributing it, but most likely it will only be for my personal use.) For if the OFL is to be taken literally, you would have to rename a font if you simply applied a stylistic set to it.

I think this is a flaw in the OFL. I think you shouldn’t have to rename a font that you’re not giving to anyone else.

By: KD33

KD33 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:50:33 +0000

In reply to KD33. And I see now on the comments for Source Sans Pro that it's necessary, because there has to be enough space to accommodate the black weight.

By: KD33

KD33 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:49:05 +0000

In reply to Paul D. Hunt. I agree with Nikolaus. It would be really nice if there were stylistic sets that included all fifteen possible combinations of alternate letterforms (i.e. tail-free l, crossbarred I, and one-story a and g). In my case I would use the one with all four activated, and then Source Sans Pro would be my perfect font.

By: KD33

KD33 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:33:02 +0000

In reply to KD33. I withdraw my case. Source Sans Pro's line spacing is identical to Calibri's, which is just fine, so it's alright after all. It only appears large because of SSP's large letterforms.

By: KD33

KD33 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:17:09 +0000

In reply to Paul D. Hunt. Although, I should note that I very much enjoy Source Sans and Source Code Pro and can hardly wait for the release of new features on each.