On Wednesday 08 Aug 2012 1:03:31 pm Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:48:35 +0530
>
> Pravin Satpute wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Lohit fonts are facing following problems due to unavailability
> >
> > of Basic Latin characters
> > 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834368#c0
> > 2. While using Lohit as a Web font if browser does not fallback to
> > default Latin font it shows as a square box.
> > 3. If default selected font in fallback not matching with Lohit
> > style, then it does not give pleasing rendering effect.
> >
> > To avoid these problem planning to add Basic Latin support in
> >
> > all Lohit fonts. Need your recommendation for which font we can go
> > for now.
> > 1. It should match with Lohit style
>
> It could help to define the style technically. ie. stem widths,
> panose (I know for Indic fonts there has not be much research on
> panose or maybe its irrelevant for it), x-heights. Also what
> proportions to keep wrt. Indic letters vs Latin Upper case and lower
> case.
>
> AksharYogini font has latin set in it. You could study that or other
> fonts which cover both ranges.
>
> Karunakar
>
mii thinking, AksharYogini is worth studying and writing a pictorial
(caligraphic) thesis again in slightly different viewpoint, but that again
could become an abatement for a zealous hell bent on reinventing the wheel!
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