Font Library post-WP 6.5 Issues

[creativecoder]

This is a collection of open Font Library bugs and enhancements to be considered for WP 6.6, grouped by category, with bugs at the top of each category:

UI Improvements

Accessibility

• Font Library: Implement audible feedback for actions that only have visual feedback #58319 (bug)
• Font Library: consider making the library more discoverable #55179

Collections and installing fonts

• Align font library pagination appearance with data views #59408
• Font Library: Google Font have more Option Select and install all #58011
• Font Library: post install flow makes it look like font wasn't installed #58989
• Font Library modal: Tab title is repeated in content #58277
• Fonts: update loading visual with new progress bar component #54797
• Font Library: Automatically switch to installed tab after successful upload of fonts. #54779
• Font collections: search or filter fonts by supported script #60914
• Font Library: Improve 'No fonts installed' state when fonts are installed but not activated #63418
• Font library: Include guidance on fonts usage best practices #62875
• Font Library: Replace error message "A font face matching those settings already exists" with notice (trac#60716)
• Font Library: add terms and conditions (trac#60593)

Managing installed fonts

• Font Library: show the scrollbar bottom edge #54401 (bug)
• Font Library: No message appears when pressing the Update button #54601 (bug)
• Deactivating a theme font removes it from the Font Library #60392 (bug)
• Font Library: Include a "Select All" option when activating/deactivating fonts #59704
• Font Library: Global Styles > Typography sidebar – group related font sources #58403
• Font Library: Consider clarifying which fonts are uploaded vs theme provided in modal #55220
• Font Library modal: Improve clarity between active and inactive fonts #58276
• Font Library: add option to delete an individual variant #55176
• Fonts Library: Replace modal dialog sub-views with disclosure patterns #62977
• Font Library: Add an ability to replace font (trac#60717)
• Font Picker: Refine, show font preview, and load only active fonts from library #51151

Storage and data

Font files

• Font Library: Fonts still listed as installed after they are manually deleted via FTP or by other means #58375 (bug)
• Reconsider placing uploaded fonts within the uploads directory #59417
• Font Library: Handling for fonts that exist in the /fonts directory but have not been added in the Font Library #59102
• Font Library: settings for using local vs. remotely hosted fonts #58229

Font post types

• Font Library: Font Family post type retained when unable to install any font faces  #59486 (bug)
• Font Manager gives false duplicate font warnings. #59353 (bug)
• Prefix font-family -face post slugs with wp-font... to avoid reserving nice names. #59137 (bug)
• Font Library: Add PHP APIs to allow the installation of Font Families and Font Faces on the PHP side #58670

REST API

• Install several formats of the same font one by one is not possible (trac#60654)

Font Collections

Google Fonts collection

• Font Library: should it include a 'featured' font category to list featured fonts as default view? #54671
• Font Library: Sort Google Fonts Collection by popularity #58521

All collections

• Font Library: add terms and conditions #58774
• Font collection registration: handling invalid slugs #58695
• Font Library: font collections order #59094
• Made the access and revoking of access to a collection available to any collection #59412

Font Names and Previews

• Font Library: Preview images are not displayed correctly on the Install Fonts tab #60188 (bug)
• Improve SVG generation logic google-fonts-to-wordpress-collection#23
• Font Library: Google Fonts - generated file names are non-descriptive #58411
• Use common font weight/name mappings in Font Library #59976
• Remove preview from Font Family & Font Face APIs #59569
• Upload Fonts: Invalid parameter(s): font_family_settings  #62701

System Fonts

• Font Library: add a way to create system fonts #57295
• Font Library: include a system fonts collection by default. #54186

Relation to Global Styles and Themes

• Deleted Webfont Font Families remain available in Global Styles following theme switches #59974 (bug)
• Font Library: adjust warning when a font is in use and is about to be deleted #55175
• Fonts: Switching style variations unchecks active fonts #54985
• Font Library and Global Style revisions: inconsistencies around deleted font assets. #54222

Related Typography Issues

• Deleted Webfont Font Families remain available in Global Styles following theme switches #59974 (bug)
• Typography > Appearance controls should show available weights only #49090
• Global Styles: Font appearance options do not match provided weights in custom fonts #45136
• Font Library: Add font family name next to "Default" label #59952
• Font Library: Sort font picker dropdown list by source #59951
• Font Family: consider using CustomSelectControl instead of SelectControl #57301
• Font Face: Inconsistency between font-family value in theme.json preset and font-family value in generated @font-face. #57207
• Typography presets in global styles: unexpected behavior  #59574

Importing/Exporting

• Font Files do not export/import properly via XML/WXR exporter. #59109 (bug)
• Font Library: Export fonts on theme export #54226

Code Quality

• Fix and improve handling of uploading of font files (trac#60835) (bug)
• Font Library: remove context completely #58428

Misc

• Command Palette: add command to open fonts #54880
• Font Library: How to add lib-font package (or equivalent). #53653

[afercia]

@creativecoder can we add #55179 to this list please? Thanks.

[creativecoder]

@creativecoder can we add #55179 to this list please? Thanks.

@afercia I've added it to the list.

[annezazu]

Can someone provide an update on where this work is with 6.6 beta 1 coming up? Curious what improvements we might see for the release and where we are with these efforts.

[creativecoder]

@annezazu I believe the checklist in the issue description is up to date. It looks like we have a few small improvements:

• Fonts: update loading visual with new progress bar component #54797
• Font Library: show the scrollbar bottom edge #54401
• Font Library: Consider clarifying which fonts are uploaded vs theme provided in modal #55220

Additionally, there's some in progress work on https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60835 to improve the underlying code.

That's all I'm aware of, right now.

[fabiankaegy]

Hi all 👋

Reminder: The release candidate for Gutenberg Version 18.5 is scheduled for next Friday (May 31st). So anything that is supposed to make it into WordPress 6.6 must be merged by then.

Please raise any important issues that need additional attention :)

[creativecoder]

I've updated the labels on this issue to be a Tracking Issue (rather than Iteration). At this point the issue description is more a collection of categorized font library issues than a scoped set of issues for a specific iteration.

I've also combed through Gutenberg and Trac and added additional font library issues I found to the description.

[luminuu]

@creativecoder I've been stumbling upon this request again, is there a reason why it's not included in this list? #55239

[creativecoder]

@luminuu I still think Adobe/Typekit support is best done with a separate plugin, as I don't see any way to download or use Adobe fonts without signing up for an account, and many of the fonts seem to require a paid subscription.

But if their licensing allows free downloading and use without an account, and there's an API we can use to generate a font collection (see the google fonts collection scripts for reference), please let me know!

[luminuu]

I have a licensed link available for testing and I tried to add these fonts as a font collection but I didn't got it working. It would be nice if there would be some possbility, apart from a very hacky way that I found. What technically happens is you get a link to a .css file which contains the @font-face declarations. I'd imagine the editor to load that CSS file and via the font collection, you can define the fonts, weights etc so they correctly appear in the editor. Ideally these fonts would show up the same way in the design tools and font library, just coming from a different source. This way could be used for other font providers as well, as long as you have a .css file that contains the fonts.