Richard Hughes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm asking a couple of things -- is TT_NAME_ID_SAMPLE_TEXT specified > anywhere? I'd expect it to contain something like "How quickly daft > jumping zebras vex" but I wanted to check that was indeed the kind of > thing it might show. Yes, it's in the OpenType specification: https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/name.htm which just says: "Sample text; This can be the font name, or any other text that the designer thinks is the best sample to display the font in." > The seconds is really asking why so few fonts actually use this > metadata item :) Would it be possible to add these in at package build > time, as showing something like "Sample text" using Lohit-Punjabi.ttf > doesn't make sense at all. I think the Latin-centric view is that any standard English pangram is reasonable, so they don't supply it. Non-Latin scripts would really benefit from some good sample text. As the font packaging guidelines now require us to make font metadata corrections for licence-related strings, meaning you'll see more font packages using tools like ttname, it isn't a big leap to suggest that we also supply readsonable sample text, and suggest that upstream include it. -- Paul Flo Williams http://hisdeedsaredust.com _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
