Plex 7.0 (next)

[vpicone]

Goals

• Able to include any Plex language for internationalization
• Able to include any additional font weights for a font family
• Able to include any additional font style variants for a font family
• Migrate to Dart Sass

Requirements

• There is a sensible fallback that uses a CDN by default
• Able to self-host font files

To-do

• Update Hebrew and Arabic to use latest PostScript/Font names
• Add tooling for easier/automated pre-release and release procedures
• Utilize Sass modules to permit modular builds based on application requirements (weights, languages, font-face features) for Carbon languages +1 non-standard variant
• Remove ie11 font files (eot/ttf/otf)
• Add semver to font files
• Same as above but for all languages
• Use @forward rule
• Add support for subsets
• Create declarations for Variable font
• Document build pipeline and release procedures
• Fix Korean asset zip for github release
• Add IBM Plex Sans JP to github for release
• Add IBM Plex JP sample text to IDL typetester —> “Non-Latin scripts” Add Plex Sans JP to the Typeface page & remove resource card for Noto JP carbon-design-system/design-language-website#965

[johnnyshields]

Is Japanese included in this release?

[vpicone]

@johnnyshields It's not, @BoldMonday do we have an update on the intended release date for Japanese?

[mjabbink]

@johnnyshields Our current estimate is sometime in June. The latter part of the month to be safe.

[johnnyshields]

@mjabbink thanks, we're looking forward to it at TableCheck

* Able to include any additional font weights for a font family

@vpicone It means that will be 9 weights (from 100 to 900) plus italics (18 styles)?

[EatonZ]

It appears that the "split" fonts are included as font files in the latest next, but they aren't declared in the CSS/SCSS. Is this because it's not done or are split fonts being phased out for 6.0?

[elyran2]

when will Hebrew be fixed? it's been almost a year since I reported kerning issues in Hebrew and someone said that it is already fixed but no new version is published... why wait on it?

[vpicone]

@johnnyshields Correction, it looks like we'll be able to include IBM Plex Sans JP in this release.

[mjabbink]

@elyran2 The Hebrew fixes will be resolved in the next release. @vpicone can provide a more accurate timeline.
There are many updates but a few in Arabic and Hebrew are at the top of the list.

[kifzuka]

Add font ligature please, it's very nice to code with

[mjabbink]

@kifzuka