fonts September 2025

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considering a new home for fonts-rpm-macros
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 18 Sep '25

18 Sep '25

(I opened a pagure ticket about this too: https://pagure.io/fonts-rpm-macros/issue/26) Since the git repo for fonts-rpm-macros has been out of sync for 5+ years now due to the Fedora package reverting back to 2.0 at that time. We have been thinking it would be better to fork a new branch and probably also move to a new repo at the same time given that Fedora use of pagure.io is being replaced with Fedora Forge <https://forge.fedoraproject.org/> soon. My thought is roughly that we should fork off the current main branch from the 2.0.5 tag (corresponding to the current fedora tarball) and then cherry pick recent commits and/or apply patches from the Fedora package to create a new repo in sync with what is currently being shipped. Given that it is an official Fedora project it seems most natural to either host it in the new Fedora Forge (Forgejo), or gitlab.com/fedora or possibly github. One consideration brought up was CI, though currently there isn't any but I don't know how much we will lean on that. Any thoughts or particular suggestions? Jens

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Variable fonts
by Benson Muite 09 Sep '25

09 Sep '25

Am reviewing amir-samaano-fonts [1], which includes a variable font. When both variable and fall back regular fonts are packaged, some applications such as Inkscape may have difficulty indicating which fonts are available. If just a variable font is packaged, Inkscape and other applications such as Abiword, Gimp and Krita, seem to be ok and give reasonable options for thin, medium and bold weights and for italic and underline. Application support is evolving. Should packagers choose to either package the variable fonts or the classical fonts, or if both are offered, make them conflicting separate packages? The current release does not have good support for color fonts, for example try Kalnia Glaze Fonts[2], but support for these is still growing in applications outside of web fonts. 1) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330850 2) https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fed500/fmedrano-kalnia-glaze-fonts/

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Fedora 43 i18n test week from 9th Sept
by Parag Nemade 07 Sep '25

07 Sep '25

Hi all, We will be having the Fedora 43 i18n test week starting 9th September. Check details about this test week event at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2025-09-09_I18N_Test_Day wiki page. You can submit your results on page https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/testday/5 You can download the latest working Workstation/Silverblue/Kinoite iso from https://www.happyassassin.net/nightlies.html page also. Do join us and provide your testing feedback. Thank you. Regards, Parag

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