Web and WebWorks Development

[soaman]

Hi!

On http://blackberrydev.si/font-changes-in-bb-10/ I've put a post about font changes in BB 10 when using Cascades or bbUI.js.

Regards, SOAman

[interfaSys]

This is the original article on the RIM's devblog:

http://devblog.blackberry.com/2012/07/blackberry-10-font-changes/

[biggerCC]

Great. I love the new choices!

But I hope that RIM considers making their new standard font available to developers...

A quick reminder: Google open sourced all fonts since Android 1.5 and Microsoft at least ships the WP7 font with your free VS2010 Express for WP download. I don't know about the iGuys, since their mobile OS's standard font came preinstalled on my MacBook.

Why should RIM do this?

One might need the font for creating BB10 themed logos / images or simply for testing WebWorks apps in Ripple...

[herriyanto]

In addition, Google Web Font offer a large library of Font, and it's a FreeFont. 

[biggerCC]

I went the hard and stressful  way and extracted all fonts (amongst other interesting things) from the BB10 simulator, where extracting means: installing a QNX Neutrino VM first in order to gain root access to the BB10 filesystem...

These fonts are in TTF format and work fine for my needs (Chrome & Photoshop in Mac OS X). But for legal reasons, I cannot simply share the files.

If RIM doesn't offer a more convenient solution soon, I will post (or blog) an easy-to-follow tutorial that leads through the process.

[kizkasen]

Thank you for the comments.

The BB10 fonts are property of their respective owners. Developers may contact RIM for the Slate Pro font file and sign a NDA. They are responsible to contact the third party companies owning the other fonts and comply with their licensing or copyright settings.

[biggerCC]

Come on, RIM... Why don't you go out and simply BUY that font with all required (sub-)licenses?

I'm currently running in the next stupid situation. After "borrowing" that font from the simulator for usage in my app logo I now would like to include it in a browser extension in order to provide a seamless cross-device experience.

Leaving the licensing to us seems a little stingy to me.

[sbwoodside]

This is bizarre. How are we supposed to do mockups if we don't have the font?

[biggerCC]

I've sent you a direct message that should solve your problems.

[sollyshah]

Also stuck in the same situation, hate the standard font, would love to change the system font to something i prefer.

Feels like and Apple iPhone which also ties you in to their proprietary fonts

Can somebody please help me.

Thanks so much.

Much appreciated.