Livecode 10dp6 and web fonts

[Paul Dupuis]

On 10/4/2023 2:57 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> On 2023-09-27 15:49, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
>> I get the value of web font support in LC10dp6 for WEB based 
>> applications.
>>
>> However, if you making a multi-platform application, you still have 
>> the issue of UI consistency across platforms as web fonts can't be 
>> used in desktop standalones (or, I assume, phone standalones)
>
> It is true that web fonts are a 'browser' thing - however, you can 
> still download the underlying TTF files from the web font service and 
> include them in native standalones if you want to use the same fonts 
> across web and native apps (obviously, you need to check the license 
> the fonts are served under - but that's true with any non-system fonts 
> you might include at the moment).
>
> In the future we could look at making font inclusion easier in 
> standalones cross-platform (i.e. allow specifying fonts in the s/b at 
> a higher-level and then it doing the right thing) - however, there are 
> some engine improvements to font selection across the different 
> platforms we need to do first (in particularly, 'fixing' the font 
> enumeration properties and allowing specification of different weights 
> and stretches via the textStyle properties!).
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>

Thank you again Mark. I did not know that "Web" font, like most (All?) 
Google fonts could be downloaded as TTF files (I just downloaded 
Google's Roboto family - a ZIP with Roboto in various styles as ttf 
files) and use them in Desktop builds  This is good to know. I use 
Google Fonts on a number of web sites. I never thought to even look into 
their use as a downloadable font!