The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster.
In early 2017, work started on a custom typeface for use by CBC/Radio-Canada. In 2021 this typeface was expanded to cover a wider range of weights and now includes roman and italic variable fonts. Work on support for the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Unicode block is a possibility as this typeface continues to expand.
This project has been selected as a winner at the 2018 Communication Arts Typography competition in the Typeface Design category.
This typeface family is still under development, and will be coming soon to Google Fonts.
Radio-canada has the following axes:
| Axis | Tag | Range | Default | Static Instances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | wght | 300 to 700 | 400 | Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold |
| Width | wdth | 75 to 100 | 100 | Condensed, SemiCondensed, Regular |
The wght axis spans Light (300) to Bold (700).
The wdth axis spans Condensed (75) to Regular (700).
Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.
If you want to build fonts manually on your own computer, you will need to install the yq utility. On OS X with Homebrew, type brew install yq; on Linux, try snap install yq; if all else fails, try the instructions on the linked page.
Then:
make buildwill produce font files.make testwill run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.make proofwill generate HTML proof files.
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.