Redacted-font: Add fonts to the Google Web Fonts

This is a brilliant idea! Not sure why it never crossed my mind, but this is exactly one of the reasons I wanted to open source this project; so ideas like this have a voice. I'll look into this today!

Thanks for contributing :)

Submitted! Now the waiting game...

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come on Google!

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the anticipation is killing me!

@noahbass How do you think I feel! Haha :P

Asked them for a response here: https://twitter.com/twe4ked/status/354763983242268673

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Sorry about my delay everyone. Just got back from a vacation and will get to this shortly! :)

Any update on this?

/cc @davelab6 @christiannaths

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Any news on this?

Unfortunately I've stalled out a bit. I need to completely re-build this font in FontForge, as there were problems with the files when Google installed the font on a sandbox server. Once I can find some time to do that, I can re-submit it. It's on my todo radar for the upcoming Christmas break.

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Maybe I can help as there is so much interest in this :D

I clearly need some help. Haha. Give me the weekend to ignore all other manner of life events and work requirements and see if I can't at least get the ball rolling and I'll see where I'm at with it. If I can define where I need help I'll post it here and gratefully accept any help you (or anyone else) can offer.

I'm blown away by how well this thing has been received from the start, and really stoked to see that there (for some unknown reason) has been a recent resurgence of really encouraging interest in it. Gives me a ton of needed motivation. Thanks everyone :)

Just wanted to leave an update on this. I bunkered down this weekend and spent some time familiarizing myself with FontForge. There is a new source in src/ for FF. I managed to get Redacted Regular created (not that it's a particularly difficult task, it being a single glyph reused 315 times, :P)

I also installed the fontbakery project (https://github.com/googlefonts/fontbakery) on Travis CI, so later today I'll try pushing a UFO format of the new version and see if I can't get that working. The build seems to be completing but it's not publishing much to the gh-pages branch as promised. Maybe @davelab6 can provide some insight as to why this would be the case?

I feel like I'm in a pretty good position now to finish the rebuild by the end of the week. So hopefully I'll have the full gamut of Redacted rebuilt and ready to be submitted again to Google. Thanks for your patience everyone.

Any news on this?

Hello @christiannaths
Your project is awesome and i have build a small thing with it
http://flexbox.github.io/foundation-boilerplate/templates/homepage.html

Let me know if you are looking for some feedback

:+1: This would remove any need for me to fiddle with a way to get these files into a build process.

Sorry guys, this is in my queue but behind some non-latin fonts I'm working
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any news?

This repo is in serious need of some TLC. If anyone wants to pitch in, I'd more than welcome the help.

A few years late here but would love to see this as a Google Font. Great work on the project.

Just came across this font as well looking for alternatives to "blokk" which is missing. Was thinking of setting up a new font of my own but this one seems visually fantastic. I have some experience in web dev and those kinds of technologies so I can lend a hand in setting up those things. I've even dabbled in making font icons using online utilities, and used vector applications before.

I think giving this font a 2020 refresh so it can be included in things like Google's Fonts and Adobe (thinking of the XD application) would be fantastic to give a visual impression.

Are you still around @christiannaths ?

Hey @jessycormier. Yeah, I had some spare time about 3 months ago and was _finally_ set to put this back on my radar, then I got a new contract and got slammed with work again. I'd really appreciate the help! I think it needs a complete refresh as well. I'd love to hear your ideas. Let me know if you want to do a call sometime to meet and discuss.

Taking a look at some of these fonts, perhaps we can find out how they built their tooling and fonts and base it off it.

• https://github.com/sharanda/manrope
• https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/Overpass
• https://github.com/larsenwork/Gidole

I stubbled across a few open source font creation tools as well. https://fontforge.org/ stood out to me.

@christiannaths I've sent you an email if we wanted to chat offline may be quicker to get some details.

Closed with https://github.com/google/fonts/pull/4004 🎉

The wait is finally over! 😍😍

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Redacted

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Redacted+Script

Amazing work! Thank you so much.

OMG, that was a journey. I forgot what was the purpose :D