Use Our Fonts

[chadwhitacre]

Our brand guidelines call for Effra for headlines and Proxima Nova for body copy. On learnpgh.org, it looks like we're using Open Sans instead. Let's use our fonts! :-)

[cameronscott137]

@whit537 that brand spec was devised in early days, and it hinges entirely on the the single v. multi-tenant conversation. As you found, both fonts exist on Typekit; an account for Learn.PGH would cost about $10/mo to maintain. Typekit allows you to wildcard subdomains, (eg. *.learnpgh.org), so that we could theoretically manage a multi-tenant solution from a single account. However, Typekit accounts are impression-based, and we don't want to necessarily be cost-accountable for multiple city installations.

This means that we can encourage new cities to get their own Typekit accounts, and provide an admin UI for them to insert the js code. OR, we can use Open Sans, which is a free Google Font, that we can just deploy by default.

@chelseaerdner, @timothyfcook, thoughts?

[dmtroyer]

+1 for Google fonts.

[MatthewVita]

Good call. However, these are not free.

@timothyfcook are you okay with purchasing these?

Thanks,

Matthew Vita
www.matthewvita.com

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015, 9:50 AM Chad Whitacre [email protected] wrote:

Our brand guidelines http://cityasacampus.org/doc/branding.html call
for Effra https://typekit.com/fonts/effra for headlines and Proxima Nova
https://typekit.com/fonts/proxima-nova for body copy. On learnpgh.org,
it looks like we're using Open Sans instead. Let's use our fonts! :-)

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[MatthewVita]

Uhh I'm late to the party (delay in email notifications). Didn't see the
other replies until after the fact

Oops.

Thanks,

Matthew Vita
www.matthewvita.com

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015, 11:19 AM Matthew Vita [email protected] wrote:

Good call. However, these are not free.

@timothyfcook are you okay with purchasing these?

Thanks,

Matthew Vita
www.matthewvita.com

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015, 9:50 AM Chad Whitacre [email protected]
wrote:

Our brand guidelines http://cityasacampus.org/doc/branding.html call
for Effra https://typekit.com/fonts/effra for headlines and Proxima
Nova https://typekit.com/fonts/proxima-nova for body copy. On
learnpgh.org, it looks like we're using Open Sans instead. Let's use our
fonts! :-)

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[chelseaerdner]

I vote for purchasing the correct fonts to properly represent our work as long as @timothyfcook is okay with that. Then, we can deploy with a default back up like Open Sans for other installations.

Maybe?

[timothyfcook]

Sounds good to me. I like the fonts you picked out.

[timothyfcook]

Haven't used TypeKit before. Setup a web kit for cityasacampus.org to test there.

This should do it:
`<script src="https://use.typekit.net/hbq4qvn.js"></script>

<script>try{Typekit.load({ async: true });}catch(e){}</script>`

[timothyfcook]

Also set it up for learnpgh.org:

<script src="https://use.typekit.net/qwz1wdx.js"></script>
<script>try{Typekit.load({ async: true });}catch(e){}</script>

for both Effra and Proxima Nova.

Who's going to implement?

[cameronscott137]

@timothyfcook, thanks dude. Will get this all installed and configured.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Tim Cook [email protected] wrote:

Also set it up for learnpgh.org:

<script src="https://use.typekit.net/qwz1wdx.js"></script> <script>try{Typekit.load({ async: true });}catch(e){}</script>

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[timothyfcook]

@cameronscott137 can we close this out yet?

hooray for nice fonts!