#8419: Noto fonts - complete
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Reporter: ken@… | Owner: blfs-book@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.11
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by ken@…):
Replying to [comment:1 bdubbs@…]:
> The installed size of all fonts is 583M. Unless you are trying to
create a minimal system (in which case you probably don't need a browser),
I don't see a significant advantage in minimizing fonts.
>
> I'm not strongly in favor of a maximal or a minimal approach. Perhaps a
few additional words about the trade offs would be reasonable, but with
the sizes of disk drives today, I don't think 0.5G for fonts will concern
many users.
I actually noted the size there in case it was significantly different.
But I'm baffled why you think somebody building a minimal system with
TTF/OTF fonts (and therefore with Xorg) would not want a graphical
browser.
The real reason to limit the number of fonts is for people who create
documents, so that it becomes less tedious to select the desired font. For
dejavu there is a choice of 4 fonts in drop-down lists, for the version of
noto -hinted currently linked from the book, there are 106 different font
names in the list (ignoring styles and weights), mostly because all the
Sans or Serif forms not in the base Noto Sans or Noto Serif forms get
separate font names (Noto Sans Armenian, Noto Sans Bengali, etc).
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