[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#962478: 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
fabian at greffrath.com
Tue Jun 9 13:05:18 BST 2020
Am 2020-06-09 04:20, schrieb Paul Wise:
> Pango/HarfBuzz is dropping support for low-res displays and hinting so
> I'm not sure how useful this is.
fonts-firacode upstream has already dropped the build scripts for the
OTF variant (not that we have used them, but whatever), so we should
probably follow suit anyway.
- Fabian
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