Great! Noto and Droid do not have the same outlines for Latin/Greek/Cyrillic. Noto Sans is a little bit wider but not as wide as Open Sans if I recall correctly. If documents are set with Droid it would be nice to have the fonts still available in the future in some way or another. Cheers, Denis Moyogo Jacquerye On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Pravin, > > Noto replaces Droid moving forward, and has far wider coverage and better > hints, and will get new scripts added over time. So perhaps initially have > both, then have Noto obsolete Droid, and add fontconfig rules to that effect... > > behdad > > On 13-04-04 05:09 AM, pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi Behdad, >> >> While further checking Noto fonts, i found that these fonts are same as >> already packaged google-droid-sans-fonts. I have tested following script fonts. >> >> 1. Devanagari: Outline is same in Noto and Droid >> 2. Tamil : Outline is same in Noto and Droid >> 3. Armenian: Outline is same in Noto and Droid >> >> Droid looks bit older version 1.02 and Noto is latest version 1.03. Noto >> has hinting information while Droid is unhinted. >> >> Considering this, i think we can either keep Droid or Noto in fedora. Noto >> has more preference since its latest version. >> >> If you know difference please update me with it. >> >> Regards, >> Pravin Satpute >> >> >> >> On 3 April 2013 10:07, pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx> >> <pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> I will package this for Fedora. >> >> Regards, >> Pravin Satpute >> >> >> On 30 March 2013 10:37, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@xxxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:behdad@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> https://code.google.com/p/noto/ >> >> -- >> behdad >> http://behdad.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> fonts mailing list >> fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts >> http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/ >> >> >> > > -- > behdad > http://behdad.org/ > _______________________________________________ > fonts mailing list > fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts > http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/ -- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye African Network for Localisation http://www.africanlocalisation.net/ Nkótá ya Kongó míbalé --- http://info-langues-congo.1sd.org/ DejaVu fonts --- http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
