Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2020-08-24 10:21:09) > Am 2020-08-24 10:08, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > ...and it would be very sad to not provide them to our users! > > Because why? What advantage do they provide compared to separate font > files for each flavor? Because variability across one or more axis provide far more resulting fonts than a set of specific compositions. > > Concretely for Source Sans Pro, I propose to release two binary > > packages - one containing Source Sans Pro, and another containing > > Source Sans Variable. That should be equally fast (or slow) to get > > through NEW > > No, please don't! Let's not start to re-introduce the pattern to > install the exact same font multiple times in different formats in > separate packages. I am glad we slowly got rid of the ttf-<samefont> > and otf-<samefont> scheme. We cannot expect our users to know which > format is best suited for them - most often we do not know either. Our > goal should be to have one package for a font and once that's > installed, then the font is reasonably available for the very most > common use cases. I agree we should not package exact same font multiple times (i.e. let's throw away woff fonts, as soon as we have established a mechanims to auto-generate those for web apps needing them). I also agree that we should not package _almost_ same font multiple times (i.e. let's throw away either PostScript-encoded or TrueType-encoded fonts where both are provided - when we are certain that one of them is superior to the other in all our use-cases, not only for mainstream uses like GNOME and Firefox). Variable fonts is neither *exactly* not *almost* same as conventional fonts. Variable fonts is a revival of "Multiple Master" fonts. Example: Fonts Inter ships upstream as conventional and variable fonts. Debian currently package only the conventional fonts, which means that I cannot in Debian display Fonts Inter with weight 631 and slant 2.32. If we want fewer font packages, then let's throw away conventional fonts, not variable fonts! But let's wait a bit before we throw away conventional fonts. I think it is *wrong* and counter-productive to avoid variable fonts. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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