How come Sync uses the Product Sans font?

https://lemmy.world/post/5356741

How come Sync uses the Product Sans font? - Lemmy.world

Hi! Been trying the app and I love it. Something that stood out to me as an app developer is that Product Sans is being used extensively in the UI. As far as I understand it’s not a font that can be licensed for use (only Google can use it). I know it’s been asked before since some search results came up from reddit but there was no answer from the developer. As someone who would want to use that font too could you explain how Sync is using or if it’s just a very similar font? Thanks! ------- My sources: https://fonts.google.com/license/productsans [https://fonts.google.com/license/productsans] https://old.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/13eychj/how_is_sync_able_to_use_google_sans/ [https://old.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/13eychj/how_is_sync_able_to_use_google_sans/]

Shot in the dark here, but could it be that it’s just using your phone’s system font? Are you using a Pixel?
Samsung phone
Ah, right enough. Bit odd then!

Sync would need a license to distribute a proprietary font.

But if it’s already on your phone, it’s totally fine for Sync to use it.

That’s the thing tho. It is not on my phone, I have a Samsung phone.

Sync bundles the font in the apk as you can easily see by decompressing it:

It also includes Google Sans which is not licensable.