Niagara-Issues Customizable Clock / Clock font

If you know some cool fonts, let me know! They have to be 100% free to use, though. Like those (Google Fonts)

Sep 01 '18 09:09 8bitPit

Product sans would be great, unfortunately not officially availableal as far as I'm aware 😞 Although Action Launcher and Material Notification Shade have it and they're in the play store, so maybe it is possible, don't know for sure.

I'd love to see the whole launcher support Roboto, Roboto Condensed and Roboto Mono.

Sep 01 '18 10:09 jakcharvat

@8bitPit i can send you all the fonts dedicated to product sans if you want me to (in ttf format)

Sep 01 '18 18:09 saboooor

@587saboor that's not the problem. I have the files as well. The problem is I'm not sure it it's officially allowed to use Product Sans

Sep 01 '18 22:09 jakcharvat

@jakcharvat power shade, material notification shade have it

Sep 01 '18 22:09 saboooor

@587saboor I know, hence what I wrote in my first comment 😉

Sep 01 '18 23:09 jakcharvat

I believe, that there is a 100% free font as well, that just looks like open sans for digits. All those other chars don't matter.

Sep 02 '18 08:09 8bitPit

in my opinion the ability to customize the font of the whole launcher would be nice for consistency, so a don't with please numbers wouldn't do the trick. Also, we're not talking about Open Sans, but product Sans. Furthermore, if we use an AM/PM clock then you need letters as well

Sep 02 '18 08:09 jakcharvat

You're right, forgot about AM/PM. Custom fonts usually include only Latin letters and numerals, so applying the font to the whole launcher may be problematic.

Sep 02 '18 09:09 8bitPit

Fair enough. I might have an idea how to solve this, I'll shoot you a PM on telegram if I finalize it

Sep 02 '18 09:09 jakcharvat

I think Ubuntu monospaced fonts would be good too!

Sep 06 '18 17:09 DroidFreak32

I honestly don't think a monospaced font is appropriate for a launcher, I would honestly see normal / condensed Sans Serif fonts the way to go

Sep 06 '18 23:09 jakcharvat

@Sacchid Thank you. Are they 100% free to use?

Sep 09 '18 09:09 8bitPit

I searched for minimal geometric fonts, like product sans, I didn't find any good one though (which is free to use).

Product sans:

Roboto (Android's default font):

Please let me know if you've got a hot tip!

Sep 12 '18 16:09 8bitPit

@8bitPit, Here's the libery of more than 300 OFL fonts - https://fontlibrary.org/en/catalogue The open font licence - https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL The SIL Open Font License (OFL) is a free, libre and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software based on our experience in font design and linguistic software engineering......

Sep 12 '18 19:09 Sacchid

And if all fails, maybe "add font" button?

Sep 29 '18 06:09 TheGMYeti

Custom fonts are now supported, but for now, you cannot only change the clock's font: #191

Jan 08 '20 09:01 8bitPit

To better plan ahead and to give users an estimate which features will be added to Niagara, I’ve decided to close all feature requests that that are unlikely to be implemented in the next year (2020). This is one of those, unfortunately. I'm sorry. Feel free to open this ticket again in 2021 or later.

Jan 08 '20 09:01 8bitPit

As suggested in #2026 I'm asking if it is possible to re-open this issue and see if it is possible to offer a customizable clock font ...

Aug 31 '22 13:08 wimstefan

@wimstefan I reopened the issue, and we're reconsidering if custom clock fonts / a customizable clock makes sense.

Sep 15 '22 08:09 8bitPit

@wimstefan I reopened the issue, and we're reconsidering if custom clock fonts / a customizable clock makes sense.

That's great news 😃 Thank you so much for reconsidering this issue 🙏

Sep 15 '22 09:09 wimstefan

Added in our second Weeks of Winter update, v1.10.7 🎈 Man, that was an old issue; glad we can finally cross it off our to-do list! Link to the release

Dec 11 '23 10:12 8bitPit