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[Review-request] rsms-inter-fonts
by Luya Tshimbalanga 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Hello team, I am looking for a packager to review the package rsms-inter-fonts used as default by Blender 3D software. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253619 The spec is straightforward as it uses the fonts template. Thanks in advance -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Design Team Fedora Design Suite maintainer

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Re: Building Inter fonts
by Parag Nemade 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

Hi Luya, On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 6:51 AM Luya Tshimbalanga <luya(a)coolest-storm.net> wrote: > Hello team, > > I have an issue building Inter fonts using font spec template. > > https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@designsuite/fonts/fedor… > > Can someone investigate please? The spec file is attached for preview. > Use this in %prep ---------------------------- -%autosetup -n inter-%{version} +%autosetup -c inter-%{version} ----------------------------- Then you should be able to build this font package. Regards, Parag >

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Building Inter fonts
by Luya Tshimbalanga 02 Dec '23

02 Dec '23

Hello team, I have an issue building Inter fonts using font spec template. https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@designsuite/fonts/fedor… Can someone investigate please? The spec file is attached for preview. Thanks in advance. -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Design Team Fedora Design Suite maintainer

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Issue with rendering on Comfortaa
by Luya Tshimbalanga 08 Nov '23

08 Nov '23

Hello team, It appears an issue occurred with Comfortaa fonts when using "8". Can someone investigate the root cause of the problem? See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248572 for details. Thanks in advance. -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Design Team Fedora Design Suite maintainer

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Lohit vs Noto Indic fonts
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hi, we have been thinking about the default fonts for Indic (Indian) scripts in Fedora. For many languages in Fedora we are already using Google's open-source Noto fonts (for most Western languages and also Arabic and CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) and more, not least Emoji too. Also already for Gurmukhi (Punjabi) and Sinhala. $ rpm -qa google-noto-*-fonts | wc -l 26 Noto fonts have the advantage that they are available in different faces ("Sans" and "Serif") and multiple weights (also as Variable Fonts (VF), which can save a lot of space). They also seem to be generally actively maintained. So we would like feedback on how Indian Fedora users feel about using the Indic Noto fonts compared to Lohit fonts (which we haven't been able to maintain actively for some time now), given the above advantages. Sudip Shil has prepared some comparison screenshots using his fonts-compare tool of Lohit vs Noto: see https://sshil.fedorapeople.org/lohit-vs-noto-comparison.html To easily test Noto yourself, Sudip Shil has also prepared a Copr repo which contains the Lohit fonts rebuilt with lower priority: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sshil/indic-fonts-test which needs to be enabled: $ sudo dnf copr enable sshil/indic-fonts-test Furthermore it is necessary to install the corresponding Noto VF fonts $ sudo dnf install google-noto-sans-devanagari-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-bengali-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-gujarati-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-kannada-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-oriya-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-tamil-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-telugu-vf-fonts Then run: $ sudo dnf update lohit-*-fonts *Note*: if you are on Fedora Rawhide you currently have to "dnf remove lohit-*-fonts" instead, since the Indic Noto fonts there have lower priority currently. And now you should see Noto as the default for most Indic scripts: $ for lang in as bho bn brx doi gu hi hne kn kok mai ml mni mr or pa sa sat ta te; do echo -en "$lang\t" ; fc-match :lang=$lang family; done You may prefer to try this first in a test VM, or to shut down your important applications using Indic text first before changing the fonts on your system. The instructions on Sudip's Copr repo also include the steps for undoing these changes. Do let us know what you think of the Noto fonts compared to Lohit for Indic scripts. If they look good we can consider switching those scripts to default to Noto. Jens -- Fedora & Red Hat i18n team

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Package names
by Benson Muite 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Hi, Am reviewing a request to include Hack fonts in Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149686 The foundry short name is src and the full name is source-foundry. Should the package name be: a) src-hack-fonts b) source-foundry-hack-fonts The short name src may lead to confusion. If the short name is to be preferred in most cases, can update the packaging guidelines: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/FontsPolicy Regards, Benson

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Reviewing fonts
by Benson Muite 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Currently FedoraReview has problems when using fonts. Made a pull request to resolve that ttname is no longer available and use fc-query: https://www.pagure.io/FedoraReview/pull-request/457 A review would be helpful.

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Discoverability of fonts handling a particular code point: How to improve?
by Robin A. Meade 11 Nov '22

11 Nov '22

Hi Fonts SIG, Currently there is poor discoverability of what fonts provide a glyph for a particular a code point. It was recently asked [1] what font package in Fedora is needed to display U+130DF [2]. ## Method 1: Download all font packages and use fc-list One way to determine this would be to install every font package and then issue the following `fc-list` invocation: `fc-list :charset=130DF`: ```sh sudo dnf repoquery --available --whatprovides 'font(*)' | xargs sudo dnf install -y fc-list :charset=130DF ``` Aside: Is there a better way to list all font packages than this: sudo dnf repoquery --whatprovides 'font(*)' ## Method 2: Pipe Dream: Declare code points as PROVIDES in the RPM spec It would be cool if there was somehow a way to declare in the RPM spec of the font RPM what code points this font has glyphs for. Then something like `sudo dnf whatprovdes glyph(130DF)` could be used to discover the fonts that have a glyph for U+130DF. Probably not feasible, but throwing it out there. ## Method 3: A Fedora website: Fedora Font Showcase A website could be designed that showcases the fonts Fedora has packaged. It could include a **search by code point** feature. A database containing the relationship between font packages and code points could be created using the technique of Method 1. ## Other ideas? [1]: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/which-font-is-needed-to-display-correctly/2… [2]: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+130DF

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[announce] bugzilla Fonts component
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Hello, First I should apologize for not discussing this more widely earlier, but in the i18n subproject we recently suggested and requested that there should be a generic 'Fonts' component in bugzilla for Fedora since we often see various generic fonts bugs which take time to determine and resolve and would easily get lost in the broad 'distribution' component. See https://pagure.io/i18n/issue/124 and https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/9368 for more background. Currently i18n-bugs is the primary assignee and fonts-bugs is in auto-CC. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&component=Fonts… I think it can be used in two ways - primarily (long term) for distro wide fonts issues that are not bugs of a particular component (eg discussions on changing default fonts, etc) - possibly triaged from some font component, and secondly when users have no idea what component to file fonts issues under, which then would need to be triaged to a particular font package. I don't think we will see a huge number of bugs under this component but it should be useful for tracking longer term issues and problems. If this also helps to encourage Fonts SIG activity that would also be a good thing. Thanks, Jens

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PT Astra fonts
by Benson Muite 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Hi, Rview requests for PT Astra Sans and PT Astra Serif fonts, which are metric compatible with Times New Roman: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112639 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112636 Regards, Benson

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