Issue #374: F31 Self-Contained Change: Variable Noto Fonts - release-notes

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#374 F31 Self-Contained Change: Variable Noto Fonts

Closed 5 years ago by pbokoc. Opened 5 years ago by bcotton.

This issue tracks the release note for the following Fedora Change:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/VariableNotoFonts

If you own this change, please add additional information here that we should communicate to Fedora users. Specifically, please consider:

New features available because of this change - pick 2 or 3 that are important
Considerations for users of previous releases of Fedora (upgrade issues, format changes, etc.)
Links to any upstream Release Notes
If this helps Fedora be a superior environment for our target audiences, please explain how so that we can emphasize this.

Your notes to us do not need to be formally written. We will edit them and add details as needed. This is a way for you to ensure that we know what is critical about your change.

If you want to write this release note, then:

Assign this issue to yourself
Check the wiki page linked above, find out what the change is about
Determine whether the change actually made it into the release or not[0]
Write a draft release note using that information against the correct branch here, in Pagure. (or see below)
Get in touch with the contact person/people listed on the wiki page, either through IRC or e-mail, and ask them to check your draft for technical accuracy
Submit your Release Note as a PR to this repository.

Once you're done with the above, make sure to either commit the relnote to an appropriate section of the Release Notes book, or, if you're not familiar with Git, AsciiDoc, or whatever else, just add it to this issue as a comment and let pbokoc[1] know that you're done with this one and you'd like the note included. Be sure to do this at least one day before the final release (October 29 according to the current schedule). Also make sure to do this even for relnotes that haven't been checked by the change owner.

[0] You can do that by asking the change owner listed on the wiki page; alternatively you can infer it by checking the tracker bug (linked in Wiki) in Bugzilla and looking at its status; see bug comments for details. Ask someone on the mailing list or on IRC if you're not sure.
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Metadata Update from @mareksu:
- Issue assigned to mareksu

5 years ago

tagoh commented 5 years ago

Variable Fonts provides more variants with less resources. Users can choose one of weights and widths (in this case, not limited and depending on an implimentation in general) within the certain ranges instead of selecting one from the value prepared with huge resources in advance.

Edited 5 years ago by tagoh

mareksu commented 5 years ago

Hi @tagoh, I've prepared a release note to announce the variable Noto fonts in F31. Could you please review my draft? It's formatted with AsciiDoc:

.Noto fonts are now variable by default

The Noto font family is designed to cover all languages defined in the Unicode standard. It is currently the default font family for the Sinhala language in Fedora.

With this release, the Noto fonts switch to using the variable version by default. Variable fonts encode multiple font variations in a single OpenType font (OTF) file. As a result, the variable fonts have the following advantages:

* They significantly save disk space.
* They enable applications that support OTF to provide font variation options in the user interface.

Thanks!

tagoh commented 5 years ago

That looks good to me. Thank you!