Hi all, I'm one of the main developers of gnome-software, which is an application and addon installer which we're installing as a tech preview in Fedora 20. In F20 the fonts are listed individually, with untranslated names direct from the font itself. That means we get several hundred "fonts" with no proper short descriptions, and the names are less than ideal. For example: "mnml icons", "M+ 1c black", "Droid Sans Fallback" So, for Fedora 21 we're working more towards a mockup like https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/software/version2/software-fonts-with-legend-future.png -- don't worry too much about the glyph images in that screenshot, the basic point I want to get across is that rather than showing "lato-black-regular, lato-black-italic, lato-thin-regular, lato-thin-italic" as separate fonts, we want to show "Lato" as a _single_ addon, with 3 fonts (black, thin, regular) each with separate styles (bold, italic, etc). This means I need some extra metadata, and some translated descriptions. This is where you kind people come in. I've setup a spreadsheet with 4 columns here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtzJKpbiGX1zdC05ZlA0dEZTQmYyaFhza05MVGtVZXc&usp=sharing * The ID is what gnome-software uses internally, don't read too much into the format. * The "Parent" is supposed to be the parent font name, so for instance, "Lato Thin" and "Lato Black" would both have the parent of "Lato" * The "Name" is currently set at what the font provides us with, and we can tweak this if requires, for instance "roadstencil" can become "Road Stencil" * The "Summary" is a one line description of the font, for instance "Lato is a sanserif typeface family". You only need one description per parent. * The "Description" is a 2-3 paragraph description of the font, which is optional as it's not currently shown in the mockup. It's included here for completeness as it could be shown in the future when the user clicks "More info". I would be very grateful of any help, as all of you know two order of magnitude more about fonts than me. If you also have any comments about the UI mockups, either reply to this email, or ping me, jimmac or aday in #gnome-design on GIMPNet. I've filled in a few details on the spreadsheet[1] already, but feel free to change what I've already done if it's wrong. Thanks, Richard [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtzJKpbiGX1zdC05ZlA0dEZTQmYyaFhza05MVGtVZXc&usp=sharing _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
