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It's looking great, but there's one detail I had feared might be the case, which seems to have happened: Font Bureau's lovely, custom type family Prelude appear

It's looking great, but there's one detail I had feared might be the case, which seems to have happened: Font Bureau's lovely, custom type family Prelude appears to have met the licensing axe. (More on Prelude here: http://webos.org/2009/07/05/webos-font-is-called-prelude-developed-by-font-bureau/ http://webos.org/2009/07/05/webos-font-is-called-prelude-dev... ) It's a shame, because Prelude was as much a part of the WebOS identity as Helvetica Neue is to iOS or Roboto is to Android 4+. What might be best at this point, if it's true that Prelude simply cannot be legally included in the OSS distribution, is that a new, open-source family be selected. I'd suggest Lato, a friendly, 10-weight family with a similar humanized geometricism to Prelude's Futura lineage. (http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Lato http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Lato)

mikecane 14y ago
Would users be able to replace the typeface on their own? Thinking back to 1980s Mac days when people could replace the System Font...
- sp332 14y ago
  I doubt the font police will knock down your door, but it is legally dubious. https://developer.palm.com/distribution/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=16660 https://developer.palm.com/distribution/viewtopic.php?f=92&#... If you don't have a WebOS device, you can find the URLs in this document http://thyb.net/cosmos/coconutfont.css http://thyb.net/cosmos/coconutfont.css And I believe these are the instructions for changing the font in the Luna launcher (although it might be easier when you're running it on a PC) http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-development/197905-how-change-font-color-size-app-launcher.html http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-development/197905-how-c...
joshuafcole 14y ago
I do not speak officially from within H/Palm, but during my time as an intern there this summer, we rebuilt the Enyo website and used Lato as our typeface. This is subject to change, but I feel its a great fit if we cannot move forward with Prelude. http://enyojs.com/ http://enyojs.com/ - Check out index.css, line 671. I apologize for the lengthy CSS, we used SASS (which I strongly recommend) and the original plan was to minify the CSS and keep the sass files available publicly, but it seems this has changed since my internship ended.

mikecane 14y ago

Would users be able to replace the typeface on their own? Thinking back to 1980s Mac days when people could replace the System Font...

sp332 14y ago
I doubt the font police will knock down your door, but it is legally dubious. https://developer.palm.com/distribution/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=16660 https://developer.palm.com/distribution/viewtopic.php?f=92&#... If you don't have a WebOS device, you can find the URLs in this document http://thyb.net/cosmos/coconutfont.css http://thyb.net/cosmos/coconutfont.css And I believe these are the instructions for changing the font in the Luna launcher (although it might be easier when you're running it on a PC) http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-development/197905-how-change-font-color-size-app-launcher.html http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-development/197905-how-c...

joshuafcole 14y ago

I do not speak officially from within H/Palm, but during my time as an intern there this summer, we rebuilt the Enyo website and used Lato as our typeface. This is subject to change, but I feel its a great fit if we cannot move forward with Prelude. http://enyojs.com/ http://enyojs.com/ - Check out index.css, line 671. I apologize for the lengthy CSS, we used SASS (which I strongly recommend) and the original plan was to minify the CSS and keep the sass files available publicly, but it seems this has changed since my internship ended.