This gem is used to distribute all fonts used for the Discourse forum software. The main repository for Discourse is https://github.com/discourse/discourse.
This gem can be found on RubyGems at https://rubygems.org/gems/discourse-fonts.
Most fonts in this gem are from Google Fonts. When adding a new font, this is the process:
- Download the font from Google Fonts
- Make sure the license is added to a text file in vendor/assets/fonts. Sometimes the license will already be present, e.g. OFL is a common license.
- Copy the downloaded .ttf files to vendor/assets/fonts
- Add the font name, stack, and variants for e.g. different weights to lib/discourse_fonts.rb following the existing examples
- Bump the VERSION in this file
To test this gem out locally, you can change the discourse/discourse gemfile to point to your local copy of this gem using the path option:
gem 'discourse-fonts', path: '/path/to/discourse-fonts'
Discourse symlinks the fonts in vendor/assets/fonts to the public/fonts directory, and it should update this symlink when you install the gem from the local path.