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Two of the five shipped without one. bebas-neue/LICENSE was 24 lines and poppins/LICENSE 29 -- our own notes files named LICENSE, pointing at openfontlicense.org instead of carrying the text. The OFL requires the licence to travel WITH the font, and these fonts go out in the repo we intend to give away. Both now carry their FAMILY'S OWN upstream OFL, fetched verbatim from google/fonts, which is what brings the real copyright line with it -- Dharma Type for Bebas Neue, the Poppins Project Authors for Poppins. No licence text was authored here. Source URL and sha256 are recorded. figtree keeps its OFL and loses only the six lines of ours that sat above it. Our prose moved to documentation/vendored-fonts.md, OUTSIDE the served tree, and that placement is the whole lesson. My first attempt put a NOTES.md beside each LICENSE, which check:public-hygiene rejected as "documentation in a served folder" -- three new hard findings, plus a fourth for an internal folder name I had relocated with the text. The old bebas-neue LICENSE had said exactly this in its own words, "prose does not belong in a public served folder"; I quoted that line and then did it anyway. The licence travels with the font; the explanation travels with the repo. Whole shipped tree, measured before and after rather than sampled: role nouns 6 -> 0, hygiene warnings 18 -> 14, findings 1 -> 1 (the pre-existing assets/ contract one, not mine).
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Vendored fonts — licences and why each one is here
The fonts ship in data/fonts/<family>/, which bun run tree stages into the served tree at
dx-maps/assets/fonts/. Each family's LICENSE is its OWN upstream OFL text, verbatim, carrying
that family's real copyright line. Nothing in this file is part of any licence.
★ THESE NOTES LIVE HERE, NOT BESIDE THE FONTS, AND THAT IS THE POINT. check:public-hygiene fails on
documentation in a served folder: a NOTES.md next to each LICENSE is prose a reader of the drop-in
tree should not be served. The old bebas-neue LICENSE said so in its own text -- "prose does not
belong in a public served folder" -- and I put three NOTES.md files there anyway before the gate
caught it. The licence travels with the font; the explanation travels with the repo.
bebas-neue
| Licence source | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/fonts/main/ofl/bebasneue/OFL.txt |
| sha256 | 72082f6cb4d04be2ecf7cc7d9e1e7d73787f0af8a5a278a47cade70c16b78341 |
| Fetched | 2026-09-28 |
Bebas Neue — SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
Designer: Ryoichi Tsunekawa (Dharma Type). Distributed via Google Fonts.
Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/ (OFL-1.1)
WHY THIS FILE IS IN THIS REPO
DX-life's /regions pages set --font-family-heading to 'Bebas Neue'. Their own site does not
ship the file either — @nuxt/fonts downloads it at build and self-hosts it, which is why their
computed font-family reads "Bebas Neue", "Bebas Neue Fallback: ...". We cannot @font-face from
their origin: their font file is served without CORS headers, so a cross-origin face silently
fails and every heading fell back to a condensed system stack. That substitution was the ONLY
remaining difference between our regions dashboard and theirs (7 computed properties, all of
them this one font and its knock-on sizes).
So the font is vendored here, from Google Fonts, under the OFL that permits redistribution —
self-hosted, never a CDN, the same rule public/assets/vendor/tabulator/ follows.
Subsets and unicode-ranges are Google's own (css2 API, v16), reproduced verbatim in the
@font-face declared by library/composables/useDocumentFont.js.
NOTE ON THIS FILENAME — it is deliberately extensionless.
check:public-hygiene refuses *.md / *.markdown / *.txt anywhere in the served tree ("no docs in a
served folder", product rule 2026-09-16), and it is right to: prose does not belong in a public
mirror. But the OFL requires this licence to accompany the font files wherever they are
redistributed, and the font files DO ship — they are fetched by the @font-face at runtime. So the
licence travels with them under the conventional extensionless name, which satisfies the rule
without weakening it. Do not rename this to LICENSE.txt.
poppins
| Licence source | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/fonts/main/ofl/poppins/OFL.txt |
| sha256 | 6be04893d770899a015649c7aa3b582f871b272f8747a92b78b17c3e5c8b2573 |
| Fetched | 2026-09-28 |
Poppins — SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
Designers: Indian Type Foundry, Jonny Pinhorn. Distributed via Google Fonts.
Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/ (OFL-1.1)
WHY THIS FILE IS IN THIS REPO
Poppins is DX-life's --font-family-base: the body face of every line of text on the pages the
regions plugin clones. Their own site self-hosts it via @nuxt/fonts; we could not use theirs, so
it is vendored here from Google Fonts under the OFL, which permits redistribution.
WHY IT WAS NEEDED — and why no CSS check caught it.
A computed-style diff of our region dashboard against live doxa.life reported 68 of 68 properties
IDENTICAL while our body text was rendering in a system fallback, because BOTH sides merely NAME
"Poppins" first in font-family and a first-family comparison therefore matched. The difference only
became visible against a glyph-width oracle: the same string at the same size measured 334.58px
here against 317px on their page — 5.5% wider, i.e. a different face.
document.fonts.check() is NOT a usable oracle for this: it returned true for families never
vendored (Oswald, Brandon Grotesque) and false for Bebas Neue on DX-life's own page.
See the builder-cycle probes: _probe-glyph-width.mjs.
WHAT IS HERE, AND WHY ONLY THIS
Weights 400/500/600/700 only — the four the regions surface actually asks for (measured across
their _globals, _cards, _buttons and _filters SCSS: medium x10, regular x4, bold x2, plus the
600 in the prayer-coverage legend). Subsets latin + latin-ext only. 44 KB in total, with Google's
own unicode-ranges reproduced in the @font-face so the subset split behaves as it does on their
site. Extra weights and scripts are deliberately NOT vendored — bloat is a repo rule here.
FILENAME: extensionless on purpose. check:public-hygiene refuses *.txt in a served folder and is
right to, while the OFL requires this licence to accompany redistributed font files. Do not
rename this to LICENSE.txt.
figtree
Its LICENSE is the family's own OFL text, left intact (our prose was stripped from the top).
Figtree — SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
Designer: Erik D. Kennedy. Distributed via Google Fonts.
Vendored as the free stand-in for Brandon Grotesque (commercial), by product decision
2026-09-24. Chosen by MEASUREMENT, not by name: at 500/19.5312px Figtree renders
'FULL PROFILE' at 126px against Brandon's 128px on live doxa.life — the closest of 19
libre grotesques tested. See _probe-glyph-width.mjs.