Attended the onboarding meeting today (21st June 2024) related to key components. Tasks to takeaway for each attendee before the next regroup.
The new Drupal brand looks great, however, here are some refinements I propose:
The typeface ZT Gatha doesn’t appear to be under an open-source licence. Instead, it appears to use a licence on 1001fonts.com which is free for commercial use, but only includes two font weights (bold and semi bold). Other font foundries offer less ZT Gatha font weights for free, providing only Semi Bold for free (this includes the author of the font, Zelow Type). The four weights which are shown in the Drupal re-brand deck wouldn’t be available for use without purchasing a paid-for font licence.
A secondary typeface for body copy would benefit the design system, especially if the selected typeface has wide language support. Certain fonts available online under the Open Font Licence include support for almost every writing system in use throughout the world. This would support the Drupal brand worldwide. An example of this would be IKEA using the ‘Noto’ type family: https://fonts.google.com/noto.