Bug#754785: ITP: fonts-open-sans -- humanist sans serif typeface by Steve Matteson
Package: wnpp
Owner: Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <sergey@elementaryos.org>
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : fonts-open-sans
Version : doesn't appear to be versioned
Upstream Author : Steve Matteson
* URL : http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans
* License : Apache 2.0
Programming Lang: None
Description : humanist sans serif typeface by Steve Matteson
Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve
Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. This version contains the
complete 897 character set, which includes the standard ISO Latin 1,
Latin CE, Greek and Cyrillic character sets. Open Sans was designed
with an upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly
appearance. It was optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces,
and has excellent legibility characteristics in its letterforms.
This is a part of my Google Summer of Code project on packaging
elementary software for Debian, see
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects/PackageElementarySoftware
for more information.
Although Open Sans is already provided by the texlive-fonts-extra
package, shipping it in a separate package is required to bring down
the installed size for elementary-theme combined with dependencies
from over 750Mb to under 5Mb.
I was told to create a new source package instead of splitting it into
a separate binary package, see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753839
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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