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Font Request: Virgil

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
50/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Domain
content

Research direction

Start with the font request details and review the Virgil source repository and SIL Open Font License linked in the issue. Compare existing font entries in this repository, add Virgil using the project's established packaging structure, and verify that the resulting font files and metadata are included.

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Description

font request

Font Name
Virgil

Link to font source
GitHub Repo
Main Website

Link to font license
SIL Open Font License, v1.1

Additional context
The font that powers Excalidraw. It appears that Excalidraw has open-sourced this font since it was requested here last time.

Dominant language
CSS
Stars
500
Forks
72
Avg merge
22h 49m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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