Re: Lohit vs Noto Indic fonts

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 at 18:57, Jens-Ulrik Petersen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 11:35 AM Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 4:51 PM [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 02:39, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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).
>>>
>>> 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!
>>
>>>
> Thank you everyone for the feedback so far.
>
> Since the feedback so far seems generally positive, I started drafting
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Indic_Noto_fonts proposal for
> Fedora 39.
>
> Have given the relative fonts priorities some thought... while in theory I
> am sympathetic to the novel priority suggestion, it is probably not
> realistic in practice: we have never done default fonts changes that way
> before in Fedora so I think it would set a bad precedent, but I think we
> should make sure that if one uninstalls the Noto Indic fonts, the Lohit
> fonts should still remain the default - I do think that should be possible.
>

Right, As per policy it impacts badly.
Lets users use fonts-tweak-tool to change priorities as per their
requirements.

Thanks,
Pravin


>
> Thanks, Jens
>

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