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Holloway's Open SIL Fonts Collections

Initially called ZORALab's Fonts, due to tech transfers, this font repository is now called Holloway's Open SIL Fonts Collections under (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho and his team's direct supervision.

The repository is mainly to fulfill the following goals:

  1. Making It Easy for Clients - for modifications, deployment, and etc.
  2. Reusable Vetted Efforts - vetted for rapid prototyping with Open Font Licenses stores with re-distributable license.
  3. Easier to Scale Among Members & Friends - get to work without worrying about glyphs and font availabilities.

To Install

Simply git clone the repository to your operating system's fonts specific folders and then execute the update.sh.ps1 script is suffice. To roll in updates, simply git pull and retry again.

Linux & MacOS

The best location to house the font directory is the user-level font directory or inside it. The location is:

${HOME}/.fonts

Hence, the usual commands are:

$ cd ~/.fonts
$ git clone https://github.com/ChewKeanHo/LIBS_Fonts holloway
$ cd ./holloway
$ ./update.sh.ps1

To update the repo from time to time, please enter the font repo and git pull:

$ cd ~/.fonts/zoralab && git pull

Windows

Unlike Linux & MacOS, there is no specific location. Treat this repository like any other source code repository.

The usual commands are:

$ git clone https://github.com/ChewKeanHo/LIBS_Fonts holloway
$ cd .\holloway
$ powershell.exe -noprofile -executionpolicy bypass -file .\update.sh.ps1

To update the repo from time to time, please enter the font repo and git pull:

$ cd .\holloway
$ git pull

To Use

Although the repository is set for automated font installation, there are some basics you need to learn before selecting a font for an art deployment. Before selecting a font for you next piece of art, you should always refer back to the font origin here and study its intended design purpose for avoiding akward outcome.

Display Type

The display (display/ directory) type fonts are usually designed for title and heading for attention grabbing. They are not suitable for paragraphing so you may want to avoid that kind of usage unless otherwise specified by the designer.

In this repository, display type maintains the glyph spacing without going into overly abstractive styling.

Handwriting

The handwriting (handwriting/ directory) type fonts are fancy & abstractive handwriting designed for passive art usage like background glyphs and etc. Obviously, they are way unsuitable for reading.

Monospace

The monospace (monospace/ directory) type fonts are space aware glyphs designed for plain and raw presentation (e.g. programming codes). It consumes a lot of spacing and tends to be akwards when used at large like paragraphing.

Sans Serif

The Sans Serif (sans-serif/ directory) is a modern organized font without serif "tails" (e.g. Those Times New Roman style) designed for both attention grabbing or conventional paragraphing. Sans Serif usually tends to give modern, technological, and refreshing aura.

Serif

The Serif (serif/ directory) is a classical font with "tails" similar to Times New Roman kind of font designed for both attention grabbing or conventional paragraphing. Unlike Sans Serif, Serif gives legacy and authoritive aura.

Scanner

The Scanners (scanners/ directory) is a technologically functional font designed for specific functions like QR codes or Bar codes. You should only use the fonts here for technological function (usually comes with some kind of scanner tool like Barcode scanner).

Font Selection

The fonts are primarily selected based on the type of projects we engaged in. Usually, the selected fonts are:

  1. License complying to free (pricing and freedom) for both commerical and non-commerical use.
  2. Lincese MUST have unrestricted re-distributable rights as per se.
  3. Attributable to original authors.
  4. Clear license file in case of legal dispute.
  5. Suitable for most graphic design works.
  6. Video processing (design and presentation).

Our documentations are primarily and strictly using Noto Family (sans, mono, and serif). It is rare to see us use other fonts for work and coding purposes.

Licensing

All sourced fonts MUST be licensed under the Open Font License. Otherwise, we do not have the permission to distribute and to re-distribute the font freely under this repository.