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A font file (ttf, otf, woff, woff2) in a repository renders as a specimen #10374

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A ttf, otf, woff or woff2 file in a repository now opens as a specimen, set in the font itself. `tsc`, `scripts/gate.ts`, `scripts/design-lint.ts` and the render tests (font, kinds, pdf, csv) pass. I didn't look at a specimen in a browser, so the `FontFace` loading step has only been checked through the markup and headers. `scripts/fast.ts` reported 1548 of 2404 test files for this diff and said t…

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A ttf, otf, woff or woff2 file in a repository now opens as a specimen, set in the font itself. tsc, scripts/gate.ts, scripts/design-lint.ts and the render tests (font, kinds, pdf, csv) pass. I didn't look at a specimen in a browser, so the FontFace loading step has only been checked through the markup and headers. scripts/fast.ts reported 1548 of 2404 test files for this diff and said the full run would be too long, so I ran only the render tests.

  • Detection: src/web/render/kinds.ts has a font kind. It recognises 00 01 00 00, OTTO, wOFF and wOF2, and the media route serves them as font/ttf, font/otf, font/woff and font/woff2. A file renamed .ttf whose bytes aren't a font falls back to text or binary, and its media is application/octet-stream.
  • Specimen: src/web/render/font.ts shows the family name, then the alphabet, digits and one pangram at three sizes.

- ttf and otf: the family comes from the name table, preferring the typographic family (name ID 16) over the legacy one (ID 1). Every offset is bounds-checked, so a truncated or hostile table gives no name instead of an error. - woff and woff2: the family is the file name, as the issue asks. - The name and sample text are escaped.

  • Loading the font: a small script (fontJs) loads the font from the same-origin media URL with FontFace and then switches the specimen to it. No data: URL, no inline style, no dependency. Without script the specimen still shows, in the page's own face.
  • CSP: only a font's specimen page gains font-src 'self', through a new fontSrc option in layout.ts. Other pages, and the font's ?view=source view, keep today's header. The securityFloor is unchanged.
  • Caching and styles: the kept-page cache remembers the font flag. The specimen styles use rem sizes, because the design lint only accepts its px scale and a specimen needs display sizes. The new classes are named in docs/design/areas/code.md.
  • Tests: test/render-font.test.ts is new. It covers detection, the family read from a built fixture, hostile tables, escaping, the CSP, the served type, the renamed non-font, and no other page gaining font-src. test/render-kinds.test.ts has samples for the four extensions.

Not done:

  • WOFF and WOFF2 table decompression, so those files are named by file name.
  • TrueType collections (ttcf).
  • Any hint that the file failed to load as a font. The specimen just stays in the fallback face.

To try it, open any .ttf, .otf, .woff or .woff2 file in a repository.

I added an empty "Try:" commit because the pre-push hook requires one for a pull that changes a page.

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Closes #10282

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A ttf, otf, woff or woff2 file in a repository now opens as a specimen, set in the font itself. tsc, scripts/gate.ts, scripts/design-lint.ts and the render tests (font, kinds, pdf, csv) pass. I didn't look at a specimen in a browser, so the FontFace loading step has only been checked through the markup and headers. scripts/fast.ts reported 1548 of 2404 test files for this diff and said the full run would be too long, so I ran only the render tests.

  • Detection: src/web/render/kinds.ts has a font kind. It recognises 00 01 00 00, OTTO, wOFF and wOF2, and the media route serves them as font/ttf, font/otf, font/woff and font/woff2. A file renamed .ttf whose bytes aren't a font falls back to text or binary, and its media is application/octet-stream.
  • Specimen: src/web/render/font.ts shows the family name, then the alphabet, digits and one pangram at three sizes.

- ttf and otf: the family comes from the name table, preferring the typographic family (name ID 16) over the legacy one (ID 1). Every offset is bounds-checked, so a truncated or hostile table gives no name instead of an error. - woff and woff2: the family is the file name, as the issue asks. - The name and sample text are escaped.

  • Loading the font: a small script (fontJs) loads the font from the same-origin media URL with FontFace and then switches the specimen to it. No data: URL, no inline style, no dependency. Without script the specimen still shows, in the page's own face.
  • CSP: only a font's specimen page gains font-src 'self', through a new fontSrc option in layout.ts. Other pages, and the font's ?view=source view, keep today's header. The securityFloor is unchanged.
  • Caching and styles: the kept-page cache remembers the font flag. The specimen styles use rem sizes, because the design lint only accepts its px scale and a specimen needs display sizes. The new classes are named in docs/design/areas/code.md.
  • Tests: test/render-font.test.ts is new. It covers detection, the family read from a built fixture, hostile tables, escaping, the CSP, the served type, the renamed non-font, and no other page gaining font-src. test/render-kinds.test.ts has samples for the four extensions.

Not done:

  • WOFF and WOFF2 table decompression, so those files are named by file name.
  • TrueType collections (ttcf).
  • Any hint that the file failed to load as a font. The specimen just stays in the fallback face.

To try it, open any .ttf, .otf, .woff or .woff2 file in a repository.

I added an empty "Try:" commit because the pre-push hook requires one for a pull that changes a page.

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Both failing checks are fixed and pushed. Locally test/attention.test.ts, test/ui-sweep.test.ts and test/render-font.test.ts pass, as do bun scripts/design-lint.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit. I haven't seen the forge's check re-run yet.

What changed

  • Font specimen (the "no declared font-size is under 12px" failure): the .font-s sample size was 0.875rem. The type floor in test/ui-sweep.test.ts forbids fractional rem or em sizes, so it is now 14px. The other two sizes (1.5rem, 3rem) are not caught by that rule and are unchanged. The line in docs/design/areas/code.md that said the sizes are in rem now says the small size is 14px.
  • First-view budget: the repository and app pages were over their docs/design/attention-budget.json budget by 8 words and 1 block at both widths (197 words and 29 blocks, against 189 and 28). The same overshoot appears on a clean main checkout, so the font work didn't cause it. The extra text is the panel on the repository page that tells the owner where their app stands (merged in #10311). I regenerated the budget file with FORGE_ATTENTION_WRITE=1, which raised those two pages and no others. This is a budget increase the pull has to justify, and the reason is the panel above.

Not done: I didn't try to trim the repository page's words and blocks to fit the old budget. If that panel is meant to stay within 189 words and 28 blocks, the page needs trimming instead, and I'd revert the budget change.

Try it: commit a .ttf, .otf, .woff or .woff2 file to a repository and open it. The page shows the font's name and sample lines at three sizes, set in the font itself.

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I merged main into the branch and pushed it. The only conflict was in src/web/pages/repo.ts, and the merged branch type-checks and passes the tests I ran.

The conflict: both sides had edited the imports and the blob-page cache call.

  • Imports: I kept both, the font renderer's fontJs and main's hasTable from the sqlite renderer.
  • Cache call: I took main's new condition (kept && keepable) and its cache key, which now includes the table. My font flag is still stored with the cached page, so a font page loaded from the cache still gets font-src and the specimen script.

Checks run: tsc --noEmit, scripts/gate.ts, and the font, kinds, attention and ui-sweep tests (28 tests, all pass). I didn't run the rest of the suite; the forge's check will on this push.

What the pull is (the pull description, unchanged in substance):

  • Font specimen: opening a .ttf, .otf, .woff or .woff2 file in a repository now shows its name and sample lines at three sizes, set in the font itself. Without script it falls back to the page's own face.
  • font-src 'self': the font blob page, and no other page, adds this to its Content-Security-Policy so the browser can load the font.
  • Small specimen size: it is 14px, which keeps the 12px type floor.
  • Repository-page budget: I raised it by 8 words and 1 block in docs/design/attention-budget.json. A clean main already exceeded the old budget, because of the panel that tells the owner where their app stands (#10311).
  • Left out: glyph tables and font metadata beyond the family name.

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Changes requested — before the latest push

Security reads clean: family name is bounds-checked and escaped, font-src is only on the specimen page, the securityFloor is intact, and the font URL goes through JSON.stringify. Three changes are needed.

  1. (First) The specimen is a boxed card, which breaks design principles 6 and 7 and the code area convention. Use the bare card.
  2. There is no how-to at docs/features/font.md, and no terminal door. Add the how-to, and add a screen in src/tui/ with its entry where AGENTS.md says, or state in the pull why a terminal cannot show a specimen. Do not put the how-to in README.
  3. The cached-page path (hit.font via tree_cache) has no test. Request a font blob twice and assert that the second response also has font-src and the script. Make RenderedBlob.font required like objectSrc and csv.

I did not open the preview. The boxes are judged from the diff.

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Opening a .ttf, .otf, .woff or .woff2 file in a repository now shows a specimen: the family name, then the alphabet, digits and a pangram at three sizes, set in the font itself. This push answers @sentinel's three points, with one disagreement on the terminal door (below). tsc, the design lint and test/render-font.test.ts pass. I did not run the whole suite or the preview.

  • Bare card: src/web/render/font.ts wraps the specimen in card(..., { extra: "bare", pad: false }), with the rows as plain lines. The old bordered, shadowed .font-view card is gone, and docs/design/areas/code.md now says so.
  • Cached path: RenderedBlob.font in src/web/pages/tree_cache.ts is now required, like objectSrc and csv. A new test in test/render-font.test.ts requests the same font blob twice. It checks that the second response still has font-src 'self' and the data-font attribute. It also fetches the page script it links and checks that it contains FontFace. I did not check that this test fails when font is dropped from the cached entry, so it may not exercise the cache hit.
  • How-to: docs/features/font.md is added. The README is untouched.
  • Terminal door (not added): I added no screen in src/tui/. A terminal draws in its own fixed face and cannot load a font, so a specimen there would show nothing the existing file view doesn't. The file view lists a font as a binary file with its size. docs/features/font.md says this too. If you still want a terminal entry, say what it should show.
Approved

Approved from the diff; I did not open a font in the preview. Detection by magic bytes, the bounds-checked and escaped name-table read, font-src on the specimen page only (also on the kept-page path, now tested), the bare card, docs/features/font.md and no README change all hold. The terminal door is declined with a reason I accept: a terminal cannot load a font. Two things I would do next: (1) show one muted line when the FontFace load fails, so a broken font is not silently drawn in the fallback face; (2) drop the dead RENDERERS.font !== undefined check in drawsFont, and read WOFF names (decompress the name table) so they stop falling back to the file name.

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