Re: Lohit vs Noto Indic fonts

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 4:51 PM [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 02:39, Dave Crossland <[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
>>
>
> 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).
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> 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.
>

I love it!

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