Bug#1128206: cardo: no source available

On Tue, 4 Aug 2026 14:49:19 +0200 Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I have contacted the font author at his listed address but it is no
> longer in service. So I am asking for removal.
> 
> 

It's a pity you were unable to reach David Perry using what I assume
was the email on his website, since this seems like something that could
easily be remedied with modest attention. I believe he retired from his
job as a Latin teacher all the way back in 2015, so he has every reason
to be retired from email as well.

Google Fonts does have source files for Cardo at
https://github.com/googlefonts/CardoFont (sfm files that have been
converted to glyphs files as well), but they do not 100% match the
author's latest version at https://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html

Metadata from Google's version:
    <fontRevision value="1.0451"/>
    <created value="Mon Oct 24 05:35:45 2005"/>
    <modified value="Sun Sep  4 18:15:57 2011"/>
Metadata from Perry's version:
    <fontRevision value="1.045"/>
    <created value="Mon Oct 24 05:35:45 2005"/>
    <modified value="Wed Apr 20 10:46:36 2011"/>

There is a good chance Google's source files were created *from* the
original TTF files in order to optimize for web.

I suppose that means we are in the silly situation where, if someone
were to rename the font to something like CMaximus and use those files
to create a version with Google's and Debian's patches, we would say we
had files in the preferred form for modification, but if the goal is to
*not* modify the font and keep the original well-known name, then this
is problematic because we do not have files in the preferred form for
modification.

Regards,
Timothy Gaskell