[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#962478: Bug#962478: fonts-firacode: Provide TTF instead of OTF font files. The former embed hinting instructions and thus are rendered sharper on (low-res) screens.

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi Salim,

Am Montag, den 08.06.2020, 17:01 +0200 schrieb Salim B:
> Therefore I think it would *really* make sense to switch to the TTF
> variant of the font since it's mainly intended for "on-screen" usage
> anyway (in contrast to print) and thus sharp rendering is very
> important.

sounds reasonable, I'll consider it for the next revision. I hope we
have all the pre-requisites for building the TTF variants in Debian,
their build chain contains some more steps than the one for the OTF
variants.

Cheers,

 - Fabian

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