#131 review/update default installed fonts packages from @fonts, etc
Closed: Fixed 2 years ago by petersen. Opened 3 years ago by petersen.

I feel it would be good to review the default fonts in Fedora @fonts.
Particularly extra fonts listed there by default which are not required by a specific language.


Latest is https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/main/f/comps-f35.xml.in#_1551

Current default fonts listed are:

aajohan-comfortaa-fonts
abattis-cantarell-fonts
dejavu-sans-fonts
dejavu-sans-mono-fonts
dejavu-serif-fonts
google-noto-emoji-color-fonts
google-noto-sans-cjk-ttc-fonts
google-noto-sans-gurmukhi-fonts
google-noto-sans-sinhala-vf-fonts
jomolhari-fonts
julietaula-montserrat-fonts
khmer-os-system-fonts
liberation-mono-fonts
liberation-sans-fonts
liberation-serif-fonts
lohit-assamese-fonts
lohit-bengali-fonts
lohit-devanagari-fonts
lohit-gujarati-fonts
lohit-kannada-fonts
lohit-odia-fonts
lohit-tamil-fonts
lohit-telugu-fonts
paktype-naskh-basic-fonts
pt-sans-fonts
sil-abyssinica-fonts
sil-mingzat-fonts
sil-nuosu-fonts
sil-padauk-fonts
smc-meera-fonts
stix-fonts
thai-scalable-waree-fonts

Discussed briefly 22 Feb:

<petersen> I thought it would be a good exercise to review and document the default (installed) fonts
Maybe we could have a wiki page for that too and also consider if any of them don't need to be default for F35
<vishal_vvr> petersen, +1
<petersen> It would also be interesting if any of the language fonts are not listed on https://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/status/34.html
<tagoh> +1

I created https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/F34_Fonts by hand as a start.

I think aajohan-comfortaa-fonts and julietaula-montserrat-fonts could be dropped from @fonts - they seem to have been added as part of design-suite perhaps.

Should we consult desktop list first or even WS WG for these?

Also pt-sans-fonts does not appear in https://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/status/34.html
so it could also be a candidate for dropping.
Any others?

Thank you for your dedication. Have a nice day!

Also we should consider whether to drop adobe-source-code-pro-fonts?

I posted a mail to devel/desktop lists asking about aajohan-comfortaa-fonts and julietaula-montserrat-fonts first of all.

Next step is to investigate whether pt-sans-fonts or adobe-source-code-pro-fonts could be dropped from default fonts or not.

I sent a mail to devel/fonts/trans lists asking about pt-sans-fonts.

Unfortunately I had sent to the old devel list...
Last week I forwarded the mail to devel list.

Plan to open a PR either before or after branching.

I opened the PR https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/666 for making pt-sans-fonts optional

Also opened https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/236 to propose dropping adobe-source-code-pro-fonts default from @gnome

The Workstation ticket generated some good discussion, concluding with proposal to move F36 to Noto fonts as default for apps and UI.

This ticket can probably closed now - I am pretty happy with the outcomes: we can do another iteration after F36 or so.

Metadata Update from @petersen:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

2 years ago

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