Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.The new Drupal Brand Guidelines propose the use of two fonts:
https://drupal.widencollective.com/portals/gfvztttq/BrandPortal
We should ensure they are both open source fonts.
- Noto Sans - License: OFL
- ZT_Gatha - License:
Originally commercially owned by Zellow Type- now rights and ownership purchased in full and donated to the Drupal Association. We will likely choose OFL for the license.
Next steps
- Decide on License
- Decide how to publish/distribute
- Check things like glyph support for i18n for multilingual usecases
Comments
Comment #2
james.h commentedThe 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.
Comment #3
mayankguptadotcom commented@pixelite - will it be possible to share the rebrand deck link to be able to share the feedback or review it please.
Comment #4
kushneet commentedAttended bi-weekly check-in on 30 November 2023 to discuss feedback for the new Drupal brand
Comment #5
rgladden commentedAttended 20/11 call
Comment #6
kushneet commentedComment #7
hestenetRepurposing this issue for the ZT Gatha font licensing question - as the rest of the brand feedback and implementation is covered by #3447679: [META] Apply the new brand to Drupal.org
Some good news on this front!
The full rights and ownership of ZT_Gatha have been purchased from its creator Zelow Type and it is being donated to the Drupal Association. @Shawn Perritt at Acquia took care of this, and we thank them for the purchase/donation!
This means we own the full rights and can re-license and redistribute it however we choose.
My inclination is to suggest we release under OFL - but I'm open to feedback and suggestions.
Setting to 'Needs work' while we decide on the license and where/how we need to document that
Comment #8
hestenet