PocketGull
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Description
**Font Project Git Repo URL:**
https://github.com/pocketgull-app/PocketGull-typeface
**Super short description of the Font Family:**
PocketGull is an open-source clinical sans-serif, display, and telemetry monospace typography superfamily engineered by Phil Gear (GearArts). Conceived to reconcile tactile humanist warmth with safety-critical legibility, PocketGull addresses the vital challenge of visual misinterpretation and reader fatigue in healthcare environments, electronic health records (EHR/EMR), and bedside clinical telemetry.
The superfamily spans four coordinated styles sharing a standardized 1000 UPM grid:
- **PocketGull Fineliner (Regular 400):** Monoline text weight calibrated for extended clinical documentation and patient leaflets.
- **PocketGull Bold (Bold 700):** Muscular display weight featuring subtle origami chamfers for prescription labeling and emergency triage signage.
- **PocketGull Chiseltip (Black 900):** High-impact black display weight evoking broad-nib felt calligraphy for high-contrast placards and trauma warnings.
- **PocketGull Mono (Regular 400/500):** Strict 600 UPM fixed-pitch monospace engine with gapless box-drawing (`U+2500`–`U+257F`), sub-cell ECG waveforms, and tabular figures for streaming ICU telemetry.
**Key Technical & Accessibility Highlights:**
- **ISMP & FDA Life-Critical Disambiguation:** Native OpenType features prevent fatal look-alike errors (slashed zero `cv08`, curved lowercase `l` `cv05`, serifed capital `I` `ss02`).
- **Louise Sloan 5:1 Optotype Geometry & Bouma Spacing:** Calibrated to Snellen 20/20 and LogMAR 0.0 threshold legibility standards with lateral margins optimized to resist peripheral letter crowding.
- **Universal Inclusion:** Over 3,300 glyphs per style covering Google Fonts Latin Core, Latin Extended, Greek, Cyrillic, and the complete 256-glyph Unicode Braille block (`U+2800`–`U+28FF`).
- **Repository Hygiene & Build:** Structured strictly according to `googlefonts-project-template` with open `.ufo` and `.glyphs` masters in `/sources`, `config.yaml`, passing 34/34 pre-flight checks and 100% W3C OpenType Sanitizer (OTS) memory-safety validation.
Live interactive specimen: https://typeface.pocketgull.app
GitHub Release v2.0.0: https://github.com/pocketgull-app/PocketGull-typeface/releases/tag/v2.0.0
**Requirements:**
- [x] The entire font project is available in a Github repository (repo) and licensed under the [OFL](https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- [x] I confirm that by 'entire font project', no "plus" or "pro" or other larger version of the project exists as a retail font anywhere
- [x] The source files are available in the repo
- [x] I am the sole copyright author of the entire project, or all other copyright authors have licensed their work to me under the OFL, and I commit to clearly disclosing if AI tools were used in the creation of this project.
- [x] There are no "Reserved Font Names" in the OFL license information, or in the project documentation of any known upstream projects. If there are RFNs, they are not used in whole or in part in this family name, or, I want to discuss how Google can work with my use of them.
- [x] The family name is unique according to [namecheck.fontdata.com](https://namecheck.fontdata.com/)
- [x] The name of the font family expected to appear on app menus must be very clearly communicated and definitive. It should not include any copyright holder's full names or acronyms.
- [x] The font supports at least the Google Fonts 'Latin Core' glyphset from [github.com/googlefonts/glyphsets](https://github.com/googlefonts/glyphsets) ([direct link](https://github.com/googlefonts/glyphsets/blob/main/data/results/txt/nice-names/GF_Latin_Core.txt))
- [x] The repo has the [Google Fonts preferred upstream repo structure](https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/upstream.html)
- [x] I have read, agree with, and comply with, the full [Google Fonts contributing requirements](https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/index#pre-production-getting-your-fonts-ready-for-gf)
- [x] I will maintain the repository and participate in the onboarding process (addressing, solving, and responding to issues, merging pull requests, etc)
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the linked PocketGull-typeface repository and its /sources directory, config.yaml, and documentation/images/social_github_preview.png, then review the Google Fonts contributing requirements linked in the issue. Done means the font submission passes the stated requirements and completes the Google Fonts onboarding process; no specific change in google/fonts is identified here.
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Assessment
- Domain
- design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100