[Pkg-fonts-devel] Packaging Noto fonts

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Jun 16 20:55:11 UTC 2013


One can always control hinting behaviour to his liking with FontConfig,
so I don't think there is much to gain with two packages.

Regards,
Khaled

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 06:48:19PM +0100, Denis Jacquerye wrote:
> Hi Vasudev,
> 
> Would it make sense to have the noto packages but also a noto-unhinted package?
> The hinted fonts are better in general, but some might prefer the
> unhinted fonts for size if they don't care about hinting instructions
> or know that they will have FreeType hinting on the fly.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > On 18:51 Thu 04 Apr     , Christian PERRIER wrote:
> >> Quoting Behdad Esfahbod (behdad at behdad.org):
> >> > Hello Debian fonts folks,
> >> >
> >> > I was wondering if anyone's interested in packaging the Noto fonts:
> >> >
> >> >   https://code.google.com/p/noto/
> >> >
> >> > Noto supercedes Droid and has much larger coverage and better hints, and new
> >> > scripts will be added over time.
> >>
> >>
> >> I just added this in my TODO list. Will of course need to check
> >> licenceses, format of the provided fonts, etc.
> >
> > Just finished the packaging of noto and pushed it to our git
> > repository. (noto.git)
> >
> > I've choosen hinted fonts hope that is fine. I'm really not very sure
> > what might be difference between hinted and non-hinted. So if non hinted
> > is preferred please let me know and I will change it, or both are
> > preferred I can package non hinted version to.
> >
> > Cheers,
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