Hi Jonathan, interesting proposal and definitely worth to discuss. While I like the font and appreciate any work for a11y, shipping fonts feels wrong to me in general and adding more for only a small proportion of users concerns me even more. I would prefer either using the OS method of installing fonts and/or providing it via extension. But it's my personal opinion and there might be support for your idea. So I cross-post to the design people and suggest you write a ticket on Bugzilla [1] (if you are proficient in using BZ you may block the meta ticket tdf#113305 with all similar requests).
Cheers, Heiko [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport On 27.08.20 15:38, Jonathan FABREGUETTES wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first post here, so please forgive me if I do something wrong or > if my English is not clear. > > I would like to propose a new typeface for *LibreOffice*. > > The Regional Technical Center for Visual Impairment in France (CTRDV), one > of the most important center with specialized transcribers in Europe, > has developed during two years a typeface designed specifically for > visually impaired people: *Luciole*. > > Word massing, spacing, the structure of the letters: the concept for > *Luciole* adheres to a dozen specific design criteria to provide the best > possible reading > experience for the visually impaired. > > Designed for publishing professionals (publishers, teachers and > transcribers), it is a powerful tool that contains many signs for > mathematical notation > and supports almost all European languages. > > *We already gave 3 presentations on this project:* > • at the French Ministry of Culture – Paris, November 2019 > • at the 8th Journées d'étude NTIC (new technologies for visually impaired > people) organized by the FAF (French Association for blind people) at the > INJA (French National Institute for the Blind) – Paris, December 2019 > • at the 2nd RNLA (National Conference of Accessible Book) organized by > BrailleNet at Enssib (the French National School of Library and Information > Science) – Villeurbanne, January 2020 > > *Selection of articles :* > https://www.aveuglesdefrance.org/actualites/luciole-une-police-de-caracteres-pour-les-professionnels-de-la-deficience-visuelle > http://www.lespep69.org/2020/02/aliquam-id-lectus-at-tincidunt-congue-ipsum/ > https://www.handicapzero.org/depeches/depeches-handicapzero/detail-dune-depeche-handicapzero/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=5265 > http://www.inja.fr/BDEA/doc/AGENDA/487 > http://gpeaa.fr/police-pour-dv/ > https://pro.bpi.fr/alphabib/luciole--une-police-de-caracteres-pour-la-deficience-visuelle > https://www.actualitte.com/article/monde-edition/font-luciole-une-typographie-pour-personnes-malvoyantes/99079 > > The *Luciole* typeface has also been chosen as one of the 500 national > projects labeled by the French National Secretariat for People with > Disability. > > This project is already freely available: we do not try to *sell* it but to > *share* it. > Today, when a visually impaired child uses *Luciole*, he needs to install > the typeface on its computer, all his school teachers need to do this... > It would be much more simple to have *Luciole* as a part of *LibreOffice*. > Do you think it is a good idea? What needs to be done for this? Who should > I contact? > > To discover the project in detail: > *http://www.luciole-vision.com/luciole-en.html > <http://www.luciole-vision.com/luciole-en.html> * > > Yours truly > > *Jonathan Fabreguettes* > *www.ctrdv.fr <http://www.ctrdv.fr>* > -- Dr. Heiko Tietze, UX-Designer and UX-Mentor Tel: +49 30 5557992-63 | Mail: heiko.tie...@documentfoundation.org The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
