[Hamara-devel] Fonts packaged with Hamara

[shirish]

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On Wednesday 21 October 2015 10:05 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> Hamara Sugam would be the place to get this right. The default list of
> fonts shipped with debian can be improved on.
>
> There also seems to be duplication - with some fonts that look very
> similar to each other (do we really need to ship fonts that are really
> close to each other?)
>
> Once you have a list of fonts to include, let's get a bug raised and
> start pulling them in!
>

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I would suggest have some duplication, not as much as Debian has, but 
some as we shouldn't be forcing our users to use the same fonts that we 
use. There needs to be some flexibility on our part while at the same 
time have a lookout on new fonts as and when they are emerging. A good 
resource is openfontlibrary, see https://fontlibrary.org/

I know a bit about fonts as had to do some studying to take an interview 
for an earlier avatar

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/john-philips-open-font-library-full-interview/

Now having said that I did a small goof-up yesterday, I should have used 
another switch instead of -a for font matching.

$ fc-match -s Sans-Serif | head
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique"
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique"
n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
Waree.ttf: "Waree" "Book"
Laksaman.ttf: "Laksaman" "Regular"
Meera.ttf: "Meera" "Regular"
MuktiNarrow.ttf: "Mukti Narrow" "Regular"
padmaa-Medium-0.5.ttf: "padmaa" "regular"

Now if you look at the above you will realize there is a bit of 
difference between the list it generated yesterday and the one today. 
The reason and answer to that is in the switch I applied yesterday and 
now again when I remembered what goof-up I did.

$ fc-match --help
usage: fc-match [-savVh] [-f FORMAT] [--sort] [--all] [--verbose] 
[--format=FORMAT] [--version] [--help] [pattern] {element...}
List best font matching [pattern]

   -s, --sort           display sorted list of matches
   -a, --all            display unpruned sorted list of matches


So as can be understood, it is better to have a sorted list of matches 
with diminishing likeness to the font typeface/look that you want to have.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org