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Martel Dieresis #8808

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jansindl3r opened this issue Jan 7, 2025 · 12 comments · May be fixed by #8989
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Martel Dieresis #8808

jansindl3r opened this issue Jan 7, 2025 · 12 comments · May be fixed by #8989

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@jansindl3r
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jansindl3r commented Jan 7, 2025

Martel – Uppercase dieresis' swapped dots

Describe the bug

Dieresis' dots overlap during the interpolation

To Reproduce

Type uppercase letter with a dieresis like ÖÜ

Expected behavior

Dieresis' dots shouldn't be overlapping during interpolationg

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Additional context

This font is used by seznamzpravy.cz which is news outlet of seznam.cz which is a search engine that is used a lot in Czechia. I have already posted about this issue in Martel's repo, but it seems the designer is no longer manager of the repo.

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thlinard commented Jan 7, 2025

Indeed. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Martel?preview.text=%C3%96%C3%9C

But (my emphasis):

Martel is a libre font development project. Begun in 2008 in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, the first weights of the font family (Martel UltraLight, Light, Regular, DemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold and Heavy) were released in 2014. The Devanagari glyphs to-date have all been designed by Dan Reynolds, whereas the Latin script’s glyphs are based on the Merriweather fonts.
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Martel/about

So, maybe seznamzpravy.cz should use Merriweather instead?

@EbenSorkin
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EbenSorkin commented Jan 7, 2025 via email

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thank you @EbenSorkin, please let me know if you had the time to update it, I'll add it to our milestone to push an update :)

@EbenSorkin
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Should I push here

https://github.com/typeoff/martel

or somewhere else?

-e.

@emmamarichal
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That's would be great! You can follow the gf template with at least a fonts and sources folders if it's possible!
If the designer doesn't answer, we will push the changes from your fork, or create a googlefonts one. Thank you Eben!

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EbenSorkin commented Jan 9, 2025 via email

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excellent, thank you @EbenSorkin! Can you let me know once the PR is merged?

@jansindl3r
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I think that Dan is not involved anymore

I posted about this issue already 6 months ago and this is what he had to say

"Hello Jan, I don’t design type or develop fonts anymore. Sorry, Dan"

typeoff/martel#9

@emmamarichal
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thank you @jansindl3r! @EbenSorkin I'll update the font from your fork then!

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EbenSorkin commented Jan 9, 2025 via email

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@EbenSorkin, ok let me know once it's ready!

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EbenSorkin commented Jan 9, 2025 via email

@emmamarichal emmamarichal linked a pull request Jan 23, 2025 that will close this issue
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