Re: Lohit vs Noto Indic fonts

On 6/12/23 19:56, [email protected] wrote:
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> On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 02:39, Dave Crossland <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     I'm the Noto product owner at Google Fonts, I expect the wider range
>     of styles available by itself would make Noto fonts a better choice
>     :) I would be happy to hear any aspects of Lohit that are superior 
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> 
> Lohit follows an open source development methodology. One can provide a
> patch to the sfd file. We are building from source in Fedora.
> AFAIK Noto is only available in binary format. (TTF).
> 
> But given its already used for many languages, we can definitely go
> ahead for India fonts as well.
> What i suggest:
> 1. Lets Noto get installed by default.
> 2. Lets have Lohit fontconfig priority more than Noto, so if someone
> installing it manually, it will become default for particular Indian
> languages.
The Google Fonts toolchain is challenging to package, so it seems
unlikely that Google Fonts can be built from source in Fedora soon.  It
is nice to have alternatives such as Lohit that just require FontForge.
It seems easier for community members to add Glyphs with FontForge than
with the Google Fonts toolchain.  The suggestion to enable priority for
Lohit if it is installed seems reasonable and may be helpful for other
language specific fonts.
> 
> Regards,
> Pravin
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