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Closes #47.

Google Sans and Google Sans Code now ship in packages/flow_ui/fonts/ under the OFL, declared under flutter: fonts: with every cut and addressed as package: 'flow_ui'. google_fonts is dropped from dependencies:, which leaves one dependency beyond flutter.dev.

What that buys: no android.permission.INTERNET, no com.apple.security.network.client, no fallback face while a cut is in flight, and no fetch on first launch offline.

Size

Google Sans ships as a Latin subset — the upstream static cuts are ~1.95 MB each (7,525 glyphs covering Devanagari, Bengali, Hebrew, Thai, Georgian and more), so the eight cuts unmodified would have added ~16 MB to every host app. Subset, each lands at ~82 KB.

cuts on disk
Google Sans (Latin subset) 400–700, upright + italic (8) 669 KB
Google Sans Code (unmodified) 300–800, upright + italic (12) 936 KB

Total compressed archive: 1 MB. Google Sans Code is shipped whole — it is already small, and the coverage a subset would drop (box drawing, arrows, technical symbols) is what a code face is for.

The scripts the subset leaves out fall back to the platform face, the way CJK already does — and the way the pre-0.3 bundled Figtree did.

packages/flow_ui/tool/subset_fonts.sh rebuilds the directory from a Google Fonts download and is excluded from the published archive.

Licence

Both families are SIL OFL 1.1 and neither reserves a font name, so the subset may keep the name. pyftsubset drops the copyright, trademark and licence name records by default, so the script passes --name-IDs='*' to keep them inside every file. fonts/OFL.txt and fonts/OFL-GoogleSansCode.txt ship beside the fonts and are listed under flutter: licenses:, so they reach every host's showLicensePage(). "Google Sans" is still a Google trademark, and the README says plainly that the sans ships as a subset.

API changes

With one real family per face and every cut declared, the compromises the runtime fetch forced come back out:

  • FlowTypography.standard and FlowTheme.typography are const again (reverting the 0.3.0 breaking note).
  • FlowTypography.code / codeInline are plain non-nullable fields with const defaults, replacing the nullable backing fields and their forwarding getters.
  • FlowTypography.recut is deprecated in favour of copyWith(fontWeight:, fontStyle:). It existed only to reach google_fonts' per-cut families (GoogleSans_600); the engine now resolves the real cut from the weight on the style. All seven call sites are migrated; removal in 0.6.0.

Playground

shell_text.dart draws on the bundled family, google_fonts leaves its pubspec, and the Android INTERNET permission and macOS network.client entitlement that commit 9913cfd added for the fetch are removed. network.server stays in the debug/profile entitlements for the Dart VM service. Both example apps keep their network access — they call Gemini.

Verification

  • melos run analyze (--fatal-infos) clean across all five workspace members; dart format clean.
  • flutter pub publish --dry-run: all 20 fonts and both OFL texts ship, tool/ does not, archive is 1 MB.
  • flutter build web --release in playground/: FontManifest.json registers packages/flow_ui/GoogleSans (8 cuts) and packages/flow_ui/GoogleSansCode (12 cuts), and both OFL texts land in assets/NOTICES.
  • All 20 files parse cleanly with correct usWeightClass and italic bits.
  • Served the build and checked it renders: chrome, greeting and prose in Google Sans, code in Google Sans Code, and the markdown demo showing real italic and SemiBold cuts rather than synthetic slants.

Two notes for review

  1. Pre-existing, not fixed here. flow_markdown.dart draws nested list bullets with ◦ (U+25E6) and ▪ (U+25AA). Neither is in Google Sans at all — upstream or subset — so those markers have always rendered in the platform fallback face. Worth its own issue.
  2. The mono is now the larger half (936 KB of 1.6 MB), because its italics are ~100 KB each against 55 KB upright. All six weights ship as decided, but w300/w500/w800 and their italics are unreachable from the package's own roles; dropping those six files would roughly halve it.

Note

Medium Risk
Touches the public theme/typography surface and every consumer’s app size (~1 MB fonts); migration is mostly docs plus replacing recut, but pre-1.0 hosts should read the changelog.

Overview
Ships Google Sans and Google Sans Code inside flow_ui instead of loading them through google_fonts, which is removed from pubspec.yaml. Fonts live under packages/flow_ui/fonts/ (OFL texts included), are registered in flutter: fonts: with package: 'flow_ui', and Google Sans is maintained as a Latin subset via tool/subset_fonts.sh (excluded from publish). Host apps no longer need INTERNET or macOS network.client for typography, and the first frame uses the real faces instead of a fetch fallback.

Theme/typography API: FlowTypography.standard and FlowTheme.typography are const again; code / codeInline are non-nullable fields with const defaults. FlowTypography.recut is deprecated (delegates to copyWith) and in-package call sites use copyWith for weight/style. Typography styles now reference bundled families directly instead of GoogleFonts.*.

Workspace cleanup: Playground drops google_fonts, Android INTERNET, and macOS network.client for fonts; docs/README/changelog describe bundled fonts. Example/generated plugin lists lose jni from the removed dependency tree.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Google Sans and Google Sans Code are now bundled with the package, providing consistent typography without network access or first-frame fallback.
    • Unsupported scripts automatically fall back to the platform font.
    • Typography styles support direct customization through copyWith.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Default theme typography now consistently provides a non-null configuration.
  • Documentation

    • Updated setup, theming, licensing, and code-block guidance to reflect bundled fonts and offline usage.
  • API Changes

    • FlowTypography.recut is deprecated; use copyWith(fontWeight:, fontStyle:) instead.

Both faces now ship in packages/flow_ui/fonts/ under the OFL, declared
under `flutter: fonts:` with every cut and addressed as package: 'flow_ui'.
google_fonts is dropped, so hosts need neither android.permission.INTERNET
nor com.apple.security.network.client, and no text renders in a fallback
face while a cut is in flight.

Google Sans ships as a Latin subset: the upstream cuts are ~1.95 MB each,
most of it scripts a chat UI already gets from the platform face. The whole
set compresses to 1 MB. tool/subset_fonts.sh rebuilds the directory.

With every cut declared, the compromises the fetch forced come back out:
FlowTypography.standard and FlowTheme.typography are const again, code and
codeInline are plain fields with const defaults, and recut — which existed
only to reach google_fonts' per-cut families — is deprecated in favour of
copyWith.
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Walkthrough

The flow_ui package now bundles Google Sans and Google Sans Code, removes google_fonts, and references local font assets. Typography becomes more constant, recut is deprecated, host network requirements are removed, and documentation reflects the new font source.

Changes

Bundled typography migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Font packaging and declarations
packages/flow_ui/fonts/*, packages/flow_ui/pubspec.yaml, packages/flow_ui/tool/subset_fonts.sh, packages/flow_ui/.pubignore
The package bundles both font families, declares their regular and italic cuts, records their OFL licenses, and adds a maintainer subsetting script.
Typography model and style consumers
packages/flow_ui/lib/src/theme/*, packages/flow_ui/lib/src/utils/flow_chip_text.dart, packages/flow_ui/lib/src/widgets/*
FlowTypography uses bundled family names and constant defaults. FlowTheme.typography is non-nullable. Consumers use TextStyle.copyWith; FlowTypography.recut is deprecated.
Application and host integration
playground/*, packages/*/example/*/flutter/generated_plugins.cmake
The playground uses the bundled GoogleSans family. The google_fonts dependency, network permissions, macOS network entitlements, and generated jni registrations are removed.
Documentation and release notes
AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/*, packages/flow_ui/README.md, packages/flow_ui/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation describes bundled fonts, platform fallback behavior, licensing, dependency changes, and custom typeface overrides.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FlowApp
  participant FlowTheme
  participant FlowTypography
  participant LocalFontAssets
  FlowApp->>FlowTheme: create theme
  FlowTheme->>FlowTypography: use standard typography
  FlowTypography->>LocalFontAssets: resolve GoogleSans and GoogleSansCode
  LocalFontAssets-->>FlowTypography: provide bundled font cuts
  FlowTypography-->>FlowApp: return text styles
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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The PR removes jni from generated plugin lists in flow_ui, stacflow, and playground. These changes do not implement bundled fonts, remove google_fonts, remove font network requirements, add … Revert the unrelated jni removals from the generated plugin lists, or provide issue-linked evidence that those removals are required to implement [#47].
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: bundling Google Sans and Google Sans Code instead of fetching them.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is detailed and covers the change, motivation, licensing, API impact, playground updates, verification steps, and linked issue. It does not include the template's Screenshots or Checkl…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#47] requires bundled Google Sans and Google Sans Code families, Flutter font declarations, removal of google_fonts and font-network requirements, limited cuts, license files, and a host font…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 2…
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The PR removes jni from generated plugin lists in flow_ui, stacflow, and playground. These changes do not implement bundled fonts, remove google_fonts, remove font network requirements, add font licensing, or document a font override. The summary provides no connection between jni registration and issue [#47].

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