fonts January 2014

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Announcing alpha release of lohit-malayalam 2.91.0 from lohit2 project
by Pravin Satpute 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Hi All, Glad to announce alpha release of lohit-malayalam 2.91.0 from lohit2 project[1]. As we planned earlier [2] indeed this is lightest Malayalam modern script font around with just 214 glyphs and 11 open type table. We have done following improvements in Alpha version over the 2.5.4 release. * Reduced number of glyphs nearly by 25% * Open type Looksup are reduced by 45% * Supporting mlm2 and mlym specifications. * Testing on Harfbuzz NG and Uniscribe (W8) * Followed AGL syntax with User friendly glyph names. * Improved GASP table (grid-fitting) * TTF build from feature file. Updated lohit project page [3] for download details. Source tarball link [4], TTF tarball link [5] and webfonts format for Lohit is at [6]. I would like to say thanks to Ani for her help in testing stuff, Shriramana for reporting important bugs from standard perspective and Sneha for making this happen :) As this is alpha release need your help for testing it and making it more perfect. I am still doubtful that we might have missed some important exceptions of Malayalam script so looking forward to fix them in coming releases. By next week this release will be available in Fedora 20 and Rawhide. Cheers, Pravin Satpute 1. http://pravin-s.blogspot.in/2013/08/project-creating-standard-and-reusable.… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/lohit-devel-list/2013-December/msg00005.html 3. https://fedorahosted.org/lohit 4. https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-malayalam-2.91.0.tar.gz 5. https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-malayalam-ttf-2.91.0.tar.… 6. https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-malayalam-web-2.91.0.tar.… 7. https://github.com/pravins/lohit/issues/new

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current state and future of liberation-fonts
by Fabian Greffrath 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

[Sorry for the re-post, I did not know had to subscribe to the Fedora list.] Hello Pravin Satpute et al., I am one of the maintainers of the liberation-fonts package in Debian (it is called fonts-liberation there [1]) and I am a bit concerned about the current state of development and the future of these fonts. I have read that the new release 2.00.1 based on Google Crosscore fonts has been defered from Fedora 18 because of rendering regressions [2]. However, since then development has apparently stopped in the GIT repository [3]. Have these rendering regressions been identified? Are they going to get addressed in the fonts or in other parts of the font rendering stack? Will there be another release of the liberation-fonts in the short term or have these fonts been defered altogether in favor of another font family? Thanks for your replies, - Fabian [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fonts-liberation.html [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885596 [3] https://git.fedorahosted.org/git/liberation-fonts.git

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Please help
by Hadal Sandip 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

How to type hindi word " ज्ञ " in lohit hindi font. Please reply as early as possible.

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Google emoji fonts
by Peter Oliver 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

I was looking around for a font in Fedora that could display emoji. Symbola has good coverage but the images aren't the easiest to see at typical text sizes. I found a couple of Android-related fonts that seem to fit the bill, namely Noto Color Emoji and Android Emoji, but neither are packaged for Fedora yet. Noto Color Emoji appears in the Android source (e.g., https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/noto-fonts/+/kitkat-rele…) but not in the upstream Noto at https://code.google.com/p/noto/ (although I guess it will show up at some point in the future). As I understand it this is some kind of new-fangled colour font; it works on Fedora 20 (albeit in greyscale) but not on Fedora 19. It uses bitmaps, so appears fuzzy at large sizes. Older versions of Android include Android Emoji, which more recently appears to have been obsoleted by the afore-mentioned Noto Color Emoji (see https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.git/+log/master/d…). However, this is a scalable font, so I wonder if there would be some value in packaging it anyway? -- Peter Oliver

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Review request for Exo fonts Bug:1053110
by K.Prasad 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hi All, I'm notifying this list for a package review request for Exo fonts (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Exo_fonts). Pkg review bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053110 Thanks, Prasad.

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