[Bug 1818565] New: Review Request: itf-poppins-fonts - A geometric sans serif Latin and Devanagari font family

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1818565

            Bug ID: 1818565
           Summary: Review Request: itf-poppins-fonts - A geometric sans
                    serif Latin and Devanagari font family
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
         Component: Package Review
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
          Assignee: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          Reporter: nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx
        QA Contact: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                CC: package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Target Milestone: ---
    Classification: Fedora



Spec URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/01322919-itf-poppins-fonts/itf-poppins-fonts.spec
SRPM URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/01322919-itf-poppins-fonts/itf-poppins-fonts-4.003-1.20200328git738d9d6.fc33.src.rpm

Description:
uring the 1920s, Central European type foundries joined the modernists
movements in art and design. Modernism was truly international in scope; only
three years after the founding of the German Bauhaus school, several of its
painting instructors were already exhibiting their work in Calcutta.

Geometric sans serif typefaces have been a popular design element ever since
these actors took to the world’s stage. Poppins is one of the newest comer to
this long tradition. An open source family supporting both Devanagari and
Latin, this typeface is an internationalist take on the geometric sans genre.
Many of the Latin glyphs — the ampersand, for instance — are far more
constructed and rationalist than in previously released geometric typefaces.
Poppins’s Devanagari design is particularly new. It is likely the first-ever
large Devanagari family in this style that has been brought to market.

The Poppins family includes all of the unique conjunct forms necessary for
typesetting Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, etc. Just like the
Latin glyphs, the Devanagari forms in Poppins are based pure geometry
(particularly circles). Poppins’s letters are practically mono-linear, although
optical corrections have been applied to stroke joints where necessary, to
maintain an even color in text. The Devanagari base character height and the
Latin ascender height are equal; Latin capital letters are shorter than the
Devanagari characters, and the Latin x-height is set rather high.

The Devanagari glyphs in Poppins were designed by Ninad Kale. The Latin is from
Jonny Pinhorn. The Indian Type Foundry first published Poppins in 2014.

Fedora Account System Username: nim

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