On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 7:07 AM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 12:00 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Le vendredi 16 mars 2018 à 10:43 +0000, Nikolaus Waxweiler a écrit : >> > > >> > >> > Fine with me actually. DejaVu only having two weights (the thin looks >> > more experimental to me) is going to clash with Gnome's design >> > intentions though from what I hear. Noto would still be preferable >> > because it's the 800 pound gorilla in Unicode coverage, _consistent_ >> > design quality and available weights and widths. And it's under active >> > professional development, while DejaVu seems to be in stasis. >> >> It's kind of sad that despite being is stasis for years DejaVu is still >> leagues away from prototypes dumped on our users just for the coolness >> factor >> >> And, I wouldn't put to much weight on “professional” development. The >> last years have pretty much proven that “professionnal” development is a >> synonym for “cutting corners on i18n where we think users won't notice >> it, because our customers only check ASCII”. > > Are you conflating Cantarell and Noto there? I am not especially > qualified to judge the quality of any of these fonts, but the Noto > family's script coverage seems pretty solid: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts#List_of_Noto_fonts > > at least some of those seem to be essentially other fonts that have > been 'rebranded' as Noto, so I've no idea how consistent their > appearance is, of course. > > DejaVu seems to have less coverage, and indeed IIRC we currently use > other fonts by default for scripts other than Latin, Greek and > Cyrillic. I personally would prefer if we used Noto across the board. It's a fantastic font family, and its CJK and Indic font representation is fairly solid for me. My only gripe with it is the ambiguity in Noto Mono for zero, i/l, period/comma, and colon/semicolon. That is, they're not necessarily distinct enough. Otherwise I'd even love for it to be the default terminal font (since I think we can use OpenType fonts for console fonts now...). -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
