Hi Dave, Thanks for the quick answer! > On 15 July 2012 21:42, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> A. I used a few hundred MiBs of Android git checkout as source. > > That's the canonical source for Droid, yes. > > (The Roboto fonts in that repo has another canonical source, > http://developer.android.com/design/style/typography.html) Well that's one of the unhelpful Google web sites. Its zip informs you: "You may use the materials in this file without restriction to develop your apps and to use in your apps." I haven't the faintest idea what that means legally. If I was mad enough to package another set of Google fonts, I'd source Roboto from android git like Droid, where it is clearly tagged with the Apache license. >> its relationship with android as upstream is unclear > > They are separate projects and while formally have the same parent > company, they may as well be different companies with no relationship > beyond their libre license. Nice clarification! (I suspected as much but the VCS histories were unclear on when and why changes were propagated from one to the other) >> C. I tried to dispatch the Arabic variants in the Latin family they were >> designed to complement, but I may have misunderstood the design info >> available online. > > Please clarify 'dispatch' :-) Kufi with Sans (masquerading as the Arabic block of Droid Sans) and Naskh with Serif the same way (see the long fontconfig ruleset I referenced) http://www.29arabicletters.com/foundry/?m=1-1-1&fid=26 states Naskh was designed to complement Serif and https://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=17382 that chromium uses Kufi with Sans >> E. If the package description does not correctly attribute the main >> designers involved, please educate me and I'll correct it. > > I'll see if I can find out more about this. That would be appreciated. I only found descriptions for the new Arabic fonts. >> F. I've zapped DroidSansFallbackFull DroidSansFallbackLegacy >> DroidSansArabic DroidNaskh-Regular-SystemUI that seemed redundant. If >> they >> provide something missing in the other files, please tell me what it is >> and I'll fix the packages. > > The Fallback fonts have CJK glyphs and others character ranges not > found in the other fonts. The Legacy one can probably be forgotten. I should have indicated I kept DroidSansFallback (no idea if it's missing something important compared to DroidSansFallbackFull and DroidSansFallbackLegacy) > The UI variants have adjusted vertical metrics to fit the Android UI's > vertical space limitations. Ok that means they can be ignored on a desktop. Thanks for the useful information! Best regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
