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-boun...@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
www.himalayanacademy.com<http://www.himalayanacademy.com>
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