Specialty Fonts on Mobile -- OK? or Stay Away?

[andrew at midwestcoastmedia.com]

So far things have worked well for me embedding fonts in iOS and  
Android, but I've had some issues acquiring proper licensing for some  
client requested typefaces because "web" & "print" licenses didn't  
cover "app" usage. Google Fonts, and their liberal licensing, are your  
friend.

I've had some issues with my custom fonts not being displayed in iOS  
when I build using LC9. I'm assuming the font files are getting stored  
in a different location but haven't seen anything in the release notes  
and haven't had a chance to look into the issue much since the same  
exact stack builds find in LC8.

--Andrew Bell


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On  
> Behalf Of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 12:34 PM
> To: How LiveCode
> Cc: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
> Subject: Specialty Fonts on Mobile -- OK? or Stay Away?
>
> We have a new UI/UX designer working in Sketch/Invision/Zeplin   
> which is a marvelous universe for design collaboration, and getting  
> from her designs to a card layout in LC is easy enough.
>
> But she has chosen to use a font called
>
> KohinoorDevanagari
>
> which not only has Devanagari script but a very lovely roman font  
> that will looks lovely, sans serif, very clear and efficient in  
> terms of chars per inch and legibility on tight line heights
>
> I have never, ever use the font bundling option with Livecode, but  
> besides this one I have need of some other specialty fonts/scripts  
> for specific modules.
>
> But this KohinoorDevanagari is everywhere, , which she has used for  
> every label, button, control, text field, menu in the UI.
>
> My question is this: for those have tried using specialty fonts on  
> mobile. Does it work well for you across platforms?
>
> My "gut" instinct is telling me to stay with native fonts, but I  
> can't tell if that is just my resistance to the added complexity and  
> additional overhead talking.
>
> What say you?
>
> "No problem go for it -- with any nice font you like."
>
> OR
>
> "Nope, I tried that, you don't want to go down that path because?. A,B,C?"
>
> Brahmanathaswami
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