On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 12:19 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > A very crude way to assess a font is to upload it on > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/custom.htm read the glyph > count and look at the glyph matrix. A much better indicator would be the > language support coverage matrix DejaVu publishes with every release but > its generator needs fontconfig sources and fonts in sfd format (IIRC) so > it's not useful for the average artists. We really need a tester tool > that would do the same on any on-disk ttf/otf font. > > Anyway, some result for F7 common FLOSS fonts: > - DejaVu Sans/Serif: 4538/1939 > - DejaVU LGC Sans/Serif: 3532/1881 > - Linux Libertine: 2274 > - Gentium: 1699 > - Liberation Sans/Serif: 668/661 > - Vera Sans/Serif: 268 Please, don't fall in the "coverage rathole" as Owen likes to call it. There are more important qualities of a font that covering as much as possible of Unicode. _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
