Hello all, So again with more info about the Fira fonts in the official repos.
First of all, I should probably explain why I care about this font family. Not only I already used to use Fira Code as a programming font (ligatures FTW!), I have recently decided to use FiraGO (replacing previous use of Fira Sans) as personal branding. So I am shipping Android apps with the FiraGO font and taking advantage of its extended language support for my i18n apps! Ok, ok, so you might get it that I "have a horse in this race". So let's explain why I am sending this. For reference we might need the Fira family Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_(typeface) The relevant information is that the Fira fonts were commissioned for FirefoxOS usage, at that point Sans and Mono were created. So, the full set of Fira fonts are: - Fira Sans (developed up to a certain point by Mozilla and then further by Carrois) - Fira Mono (developed up to a certain point by Mozilla and then further by Carrois) - Fira Math (mathematics font developed by something else) - Fira Code (Fira Mono extended with programming ligatures) - FiraGO (Fira Sans extended with more language support) - Firava (Fira Sans as a variable font) Fira Sans and Fira Mono are currently retired and I was in the process of sending a review to get them back in the repos. However I now question if it's a worth cause. Think about it like this, if Fira Code and FiraGo are respectively supersets os Fira Mono and Fira Sans, maybe we should just reflect that in the packaging? We could ship a fontconfig that make the system behaves as the are equivalent and change the specs so the superset font provides the older one! That is, if that is something we as font packagers are allowed to do. I am fine with having the original Sans and Mono fonts in the repos for completeness but maybe taking this other approach could save us time and effort? Btw looking in the repos it's noticeable that Fira Math is only available for Latex usage, but not as a normal font, and that Firava is not packaged at all. I am willing to package those fonts in the near future so it can be useable for whoever is interested. Hope we can get into an agreement, Mateus Rodrigues Costa -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
