> >> On 07/15/2012 06:01 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >>>>> 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 >> >> That may have been the case, but it is my personal understanding that we >> should dispatch Naskh with both Sans and Serif. Kufi is a horrible font >> for >> body text. > > So make kufi a separate family and keep the old droid sans arabic for > sans? Or is it also horrible in some way? BTW regardless of your answer here, with your former fontconfig maintainer hat on, how do you make a font family masquerade as parts of two other font families? If I understand the recipe you gave me for use in Fedora, after Naskh has been morphed in Serif, it is not available anymore to morph in Sans. That would be a useful operation to perform for cultures which had not a western calligraphic separation culture Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
