feat: bundle Google Sans and Google Sans Code instead of fetching them - #50
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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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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
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to An incomplete font source download can leave bundled assets only partly rebuilt. Validate both source directories before generating output. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@packages/flow_ui/tool/subset_fonts.sh`:
- Line 21: Update the initial source validation guard in the subset-fonts script
to require both Google_Sans/static and Google_Sans_Code/static, while preserving
the existing empty-SRC check, so no fonts are written unless both source
directories exist.
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Closes #47.
Google Sans and Google Sans Code now ship in
packages/flow_ui/fonts/under the OFL, declared underflutter: fonts:with every cut and addressed aspackage: 'flow_ui'.google_fontsis dropped fromdependencies:, which leaves one dependency beyond flutter.dev.What that buys: no
android.permission.INTERNET, nocom.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.
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.shrebuilds 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.
pyftsubsetdrops the copyright, trademark and licence name records by default, so the script passes--name-IDs='*'to keep them inside every file.fonts/OFL.txtandfonts/OFL-GoogleSansCode.txtship beside the fonts and are listed underflutter: licenses:, so they reach every host'sshowLicensePage(). "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.standardandFlowTheme.typographyareconstagain (reverting the 0.3.0 breaking note).FlowTypography.code/codeInlineare plain non-nullable fields with const defaults, replacing the nullable backing fields and their forwarding getters.FlowTypography.recutis deprecated in favour ofcopyWith(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.dartdraws on the bundled family,google_fontsleaves its pubspec, and the AndroidINTERNETpermission and macOSnetwork.cliententitlement that commit 9913cfd added for the fetch are removed.network.serverstays 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 formatclean.flutter pub publish --dry-run: all 20 fonts and both OFL texts ship,tool/does not, archive is 1 MB.flutter build web --releaseinplayground/:FontManifest.jsonregisterspackages/flow_ui/GoogleSans(8 cuts) andpackages/flow_ui/GoogleSansCode(12 cuts), and both OFL texts land inassets/NOTICES.usWeightClassand italic bits.Two notes for review
flow_markdown.dartdraws 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.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_uiinstead of loading them throughgoogle_fonts, which is removed frompubspec.yaml. Fonts live underpackages/flow_ui/fonts/(OFL texts included), are registered influtter: fonts:withpackage: 'flow_ui', and Google Sans is maintained as a Latin subset viatool/subset_fonts.sh(excluded from publish). Host apps no longer needINTERNETor macOSnetwork.clientfor typography, and the first frame uses the real faces instead of a fetch fallback.Theme/typography API:
FlowTypography.standardandFlowTheme.typographyareconstagain;code/codeInlineare non-nullable fields with const defaults.FlowTypography.recutis deprecated (delegates tocopyWith) and in-package call sites usecopyWithfor weight/style. Typography styles now reference bundled families directly instead ofGoogleFonts.*.Workspace cleanup: Playground drops
google_fonts, AndroidINTERNET, and macOSnetwork.clientfor fonts; docs/README/changelog describe bundled fonts. Example/generated plugin lists losejnifrom the removed dependency tree.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 4d9473f. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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New Features
copyWith.Bug Fixes
Documentation
API Changes
FlowTypography.recutis deprecated; usecopyWith(fontWeight:, fontStyle:)instead.