[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1093547: fonts-inter: Please package Adwaita Sans

[Jeremy Bícha]

Source: fonts-inter
Version: 4.0+ds-2
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: tar at debian.org

We had talked earlier about possibly packaging the new GNOME default
font as a separate binary package from source fonts-inter.

For GNOME 48 Beta, GNOME appears to be officially switching to a
feature frozen version of Inter which they are naming Adwaita Sans.

See the 2 build lines at
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-fonts/-/blob/main/Makefile

They also recommend updating fonts-inter to 4.1.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/merge_requests/3032

Mono
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New this time, they are also switching their recommended mono font to
a feature frozen version of Iosevka which they are named Adwaita Mono.
Iosevka is not in Debian yet. See https://bugs.debian.org/973995

Naming
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Therefore, I suggest we use fonts-adwaita-sans and fonts-adwaita-mono
as the binary package names.

Gitlab Sans
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As was pointed out on Reddit, it looks like the "Gitlab Sans" font is
also Inter with cv05 so I assume it is identical to Adwaita Sans.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/01/17/new-typefaces-in-gitlab/#enhance-the-content
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/frontend/fonts/-/blob/main/Makefile#L84-92

Maybe we could mention that in the package description; It doesn't
look like the Debian package gitlab is shipping a copy of this font
currently.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha