[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#911705: Bug#911705: #911705 [l10n|gu] debian-installer: fonts broken for Gujarati
Jonas Smedegaard
jonas at jones.dk
Wed Dec 5 21:57:51 GMT 2018
Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-05 21:49:04)
> Hi Jonas,
>
> Holger Wansing <hwansing at mailbox.org> wrote:
> > Yeah, I built a test image with this, and as it seems Gujarati is
> > back! :-) (no TOFU signs anymore, but promissing looking glyphs)
> >
> > I will provide screenshots soon, to give possibility to compare the
> > results.
>
> So, here's a first bunch of screenshots, just to show that there seems
> to be no difference between the three fonts "Noto Sans Gujarati",
> "Noto Sans Gujarati UI" and "Noto Serif Gujarati".
> Is this correct? I suspect not ...
> (Or are the differences between the fonts so small, that I don't see
> them?)
> I used these three different lines to set the font for Gujarati:
> FONT_NAME="Noto Sans Gujarati"
> FONT_NAME="Noto Sans Gujarati UI"
> FONT_NAME="Noto Serif Gujarati"
The UI variant is likely irrelevant: It is a font optimized for use in
UI elements like menus where uniform height has higher priority than
whatever is the normal spacing dynamic in regular texts.
A quick search for samples led me to
https://fontinfo.opensuse.org/fonts/NotoSansGujaratiRegular.html and
https://fontinfo.opensuse.org/fonts/NotoSerifGujaratiRegular.html which
(especially when zoomed in and comparing the largest samples) show
slight difference e.g. in the "middle" glyf (to me looking like an
elefant at a lake with a candle on its head...)
Which is best I cannot tell. Kartik, we need your input :-)
> There is also a screenshot from Stretch, which shows the font for
> Gujarati from the ttf-freefont package, which looks more bold.
> Can I also have a bold variant to show to the proofreaders?
Seems the bold variant is already there (looks to me like the subject
line is written in bold).
If you are asking for a stronger bold, then... yes you can have that as
well: Currently only main weights (Regular, Bold) are packaged, and
Gujarati Serif (but not Gujarati Sans) has more variants (ExtraLignt,
Light, Thin, Medium, ExtraBold, Black). Tell me if needed, else I
perfer to prioritize other tasks than packaging those (as I prefer to
package it all at once - across all regions, not only Gujarati).
- Jonas
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