Some fonts not available in CSS

[TimGeisler]

There are some fonts in https://github.com/db-ui/base/tree/main/assets/fonts (dbscreenhead-regular, dbscreensans-medium, dbscreensans-semibold, ...) which are not converted to CSS definitions of those fonts (see https://github.com/db-ui/core/blob/main/source/_patterns/00-base/type/_fonts.variables.scss).

Is there a reason for this mismatch?

[mfranzke]

@TimGeisler thanks a lot for your question.
It's mainly related to that with DB UI Base we'd like to provide all of the font assets that are downloadable by the DB Marketingportal, but DB UI Core is based on the DB UX Design System (which is hosted at the UI Components website on the Marketingportal as well). Within this DB UX Design System only a smaller amount of fonts is being used and that for only those are provided as @font-face declarations by DB UI Core.

Still it might be a good idea to at least provide some further font faces for in-between font-weights – I'll align this with our creative colleagues and come back to your question/request.

If you would need some of the others even already you could overwrite the $font-families variable for the SCSS compilation process: https://github.com/db-ui/core/blob/main/source/_patterns/00-base/type/_fonts.variables.scss#L3 by e.g. defining this variable previous to include DB UI Core related SCSS files like the main one.

[mfranzke]

We'll provide the following three fonts as well within as CSS font-faces by setting their related font-weights:

• DB Screen Head Regular with a font-weight of 400
• DB Screen Sans Medium with a font-weight of 500
• DB Screen Sans Semibold with a font-weight of 600

I'm still in alignments regarding the usage of the DB Screen Sans Digital Regular and Condensed variants.