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Type With Pride: The Gilbert Font Project

Type With Pride: The Gilbert Font Project

On 31 March, 2017, Gilbert Baker the creator of the iconic Rainbow Flag sadly passed away. Mr. Baker was both an LGBTQ activist and artist, and was known for helping friends create banners for protests and marches. To honor the memory of Gilbert Baker, NewFest and NYC Pride partnered with Ogilvy & Mather and Fontself to create free fonts inspired by the design language of the iconic Rainbow Flag, the typeface was named Gilbert after Mr. Baker.

• Learn more about Type With Pride at typewithpride.com
• Learn more about the ongoing creative and technical process on the Fontself blog

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Details

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Gilbert is available today as preview alpha version in the OpenType font format and will grow over the upcoming months into a font family with several weights, stylistic sets, ligatures and symbols.

Gilbert Color features colorful glyphs and is currently available in the OpenType-SVG color font format.

• Check out the docs to learn more about how to use the Gilbert font and its color version.
• Check out ColorFonts.WTF to learn more about color fonts and their technical specificities.

Gilbert was made with a custom version of Fontself for Illustrator, based on a typeface design created in Adobe Illustrator. The font sources will be freely available at a later stage.

License

Thanks to support from the Type With Pride authors, NewFest, NYC Pride and Fontself, all Type With Pride artwork and the Gilbert font are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Learn more about this license and usage rights at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

• Learn more about NewFest at newfest.org
• Learn more about NYC Pride at nycpride.org
• Learn more about Fontself at fontself.com

Repository Layout

The font repository follows the Unified Font Repository v2.0, a standard way to organize font project source files.

• Learn more at https://github.com/raphaelbastide/Unified-Font-Repository

typewithpride's Issues

Release the font sources

The Readme says font sources will be available later. It looks like this project has stalled; can you release the sources?

Color manipulation

First of all: this is great!!

But I was wondering, if there is a way to manipulate the colors of the letters?
Could you add an SVG version of the font, which might allow for easy color manipulation in the source code?

Cheers,
-f

Update License

The font has been included in Adobe Fonts since 2019 under the SIL Open Font License (OFL) license and should be reflected in this repo and main website font download.

Expected Behavior

Update the current CC-BY-SA-4.0 License to SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1

This should be reflected in the following places:

Repo
README.md
LICENSE.txt

Releases
README.txt and LICENSE.txt of the font zip files in Assets

Possible Solution

Scroll to Open source details on Adobe for links and descriptions.

Happy to do a pull request for repo updates if needed.
Thank you for creating and open sourcing Gilbert!

Context

I am currently using GIlbert in publications for our local community radio station in the upcoming LGBTQ+ History Month and wanted to confirm the conflicting license information.

Any way to get the SVGs?

Hi everyone!

Expected Behavior

I'd like to be able to use Gilbert cross-browser.

Current Behavior

Chrome still does not render colored fonts.

Possible Solution

Use the SVGs instead.

Context

When the most popular browser doesn't render the font correctly, using it is pretty much out of the question. I can export black-and-white SVGs from the font (but there's no color), and I can use bitmap renders (but they scale poorly), but having the colored SVGs would make it possible to use Gilbert in a web context with relatively minimal drawback.

Thanks for Gilbert, it's fantastic!