640402 - Replace the Chunk Five font with the one provided at http://svay.com/blog/index/post/2010/05/16/Chunk-font,-now-with-accents

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites :: demos.mozilla.org, enhancement)

Description

[Benoit]

The Web o' Wonder website uses a Webfont called "Chunk Five" for titles and other parts of the interface. 

Since this font only has the basic latin alphabet and no accentuated variants, we can't use it properly in localized versions of the site, like French or German.

For example, in French we had to mix a few misspelt words (a word without an accent on a letter can become another word), and in some cases the "web safe" Georgia bold font instead.

Another version of the font with accents added has been made available at http://svay.com/blog/index/post/2010/05/16/Chunk-font,-now-with-accents

It this version of the font could be used on the site instead of the current one, it would make life much easier for many european languages localizers. And the website would also look better in those languages as a result.

Comment 1

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Austin, what do you think about adding a custom webfont for French?

Comment 2

[Austin King [:ozten]]

We have a big QA pass with the Mobile launch.
I'll add this now. Sorry for the delay.

Comment 3

[Austin King [:ozten]]

http://svay.com/files/ChunkFive-accents/ChunkFive-accents_v0.1.zip includes only 1 font file:
ChunkFive-Roman.otf

We use eot, svg, ttf and woff on the production site.

I'll mess with fontforge and the otf file.

Comment 4

[Austin King [:ozten]]

I tried to leave a comment at http://svay.com/blog/index/post/2010/05/16/Chunk-font%2C-now-with-accents with a link back to this bug and asking if they already have these formats.

Comment 5

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Attachment: First attempt to create ttf update

Comment 6

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Attachment: First attempt to create svg update

Comment 7

[Maurice Svay]

Hi,
I'm the guy from svay.com. The font is only available in TTF. It's the only format supported by my font editor. Feel free to convert it :)

Comment 8

[Austin King [:ozten]]

(In reply to comment #7)
Okay, basically we need someone with mad font skillz to create eot, svg, ttf and woff files.

Comment 9

[Nacho Coloma]

Have you tried using http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator ?