https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172824
--- Comment #13 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Verhoeckx from comment #12) > * As far as I know Noto Sans is the only real open source contender for a > new modern font with a high coverage of characters and glyphs. There isn't > much choice. More important, and what folks miss, is that the Noto family of fonts is a Superfamily. Meaning both its Sans and its Serif face offerings as packaged for various regions, locales and intended scripts--are homogeneous in their metrics. Not necessarily to be intermixed, but such that a text run with Noto Sans CJK would not look "odd" in a document with core Noto Sans. Not really the case for IBM Plex, Adobe Source, and DejaVu where the faces designs don't seem as consistent. So, while LibreOffice currently bundles [1] a fair mix of Noto fonts, we depend on os/DE delivered fonts (or user action) for locales needing CJK and some of the complex Indic scripts. But those substitutions/fallbacks already are recorded into the VCL.xcu listing. And, with recent work on font handling, the Variable weight flavors that Noto builds, can also be supported. I think @Khaled is moving us toward that. Just be aware that most of the qa testing makes use of metrics from the the Liberation fonts, including IIANM for the ww8 filter critical for OOXML .docx and MS Binary .doc format validation import, export, and round trip. So I doubt they can go away completely, but those tests using font defaults could be adjusted to use a Noto based font for build and functional testing. And that would require substantial dev/qa effort to transition the tests. But cleanup of the VCL.xcu substitution lists can be curated to remove some of the defunct 25 year old fonts included. =-ref-= [1] listing of fonts bundled at 27.2.0 (wef. master 2026-07-26) NotoKufiArabic-Bold.ttf NotoKufiArabic-Regular.ttf NotoNaskhArabic-Bold.ttf NotoNaskhArabic-Regular.ttf NotoSans-Bold.ttf NotoSans-BoldItalic.ttf NotoSans-Italic.ttf NotoSans-Regular.ttf NotoSansArabic-Bold.ttf NotoSansArabic-Regular.ttf NotoSansArmenian-Bold.ttf NotoSansArmenian-Regular.ttf NotoSansGeorgian-Bold.ttf NotoSansGeorgian-Regular.ttf NotoSansHebrew-Bold.ttf NotoSansHebrew-Regular.ttf NotoSansLao-Bold.ttf NotoSansLao-Regular.ttf NotoSansLisu-Bold.ttf NotoSansLisu-Regular.ttf NotoSerif-Bold.ttf NotoSerif-BoldItalic.ttf NotoSerif-Italic.ttf NotoSerif-Regular.ttf NotoSerifArmenian-Bold.ttf NotoSerifArmenian-Regular.ttf NotoSerifGeorgian-Bold.ttf NotoSerifGeorgian-Regular.ttf NotoSerifHebrew-Bold.ttf NotoSerifHebrew-Regular.ttf NotoSerifLao-Bold.ttf NotoSerifLao-Regular.ttf -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
