unicode-proposals VS public-sans

Because... not wanting to have to deal with racism? News flash: There's no official ISO 3166 code for a confederate flag, regardless of IOS or Android. You're not typing one.

You mean the "Cool S", right? Well, the standard for encoding text (and emoji) on computers is Unicode - they have a list of selection factors for what make good emoji candidates. The Cool S, sadly, doesn't seem to fulfill the requirements, being an exact image (instead of a representation of a broad concept) and not having any sort of apparent use. It might fare better as a non-emoji symbol (like 🗫), those seem to have less strict requirements. In any case, I can't find any evidence that somebody's gone to the effort to write up a full proposal, just this somewhat half-hearted suggestion from 2018.

Source: https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/256

Soviet flag emoji proposal

I see lots of misinformation following this about copyright and fonts. In the United States, fonts are copyright-able as programs but not as letterforms. You cannot copyright the basic elements of language, so anyone can make his own executable program (i.e. a font file) that has literally any glyph in it without infringing on copyright. Note that some things that we make think of as glyphs (e.g. the recycling sign or the textile care symbols) can be trademarks and protected under that class of intellectual property law.

There's more proposals here:

https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/

There's a rather whimsical one proposed called the Priest Emoji!

https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/425

Instead of having proposals, why not just implement every thing/subject/object we can think of?

It's reminiscent of Public Sans, but maybe slightly less harmonious in its design. I don't hate it, though.

Public sans (F)

Seems like a miss that this is using google fonts instead of the font made by the govt https://public-sans.digital.gov/

I’ve always found government codebases fascinating, since you can directly witness the intersection of code and law!

Also see this issue raised on the Public Sans repo, which claims the typeface (created by the American government) is unconstitutional:

https://github.com/uswds/public-sans/issues/31

I've loved using Inter for a long time, and I'm glad they finally fixed some odd kerning/letter spacing issues between certain letters that always bothered me and prevented me from using it on projects.

I think Inter is getting more popular (since it's free) and replacing other popular ones like Circular that cost an arm and a leg, and pretty "look the same" in the lay-person's eyes.

There's a whole slew of similar, free typefaces now: Public Sans (https://public-sans.digital.gov/), Work Sans (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Work+Sans), Metropolis (https://fontsarena.com/metropolis-by-chris-simpson/)