On 08-04-2014 00:45, Steven Walling wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
I noticed from Kaldari's notes [1] that "Open sans" was rejected based
on language support and install base.
>
A similar example is Google's Noto font (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts). It has basically no default
install base that I'm aware of, but it's focused on readability in as many
scripts as possible and is Apache-licensed.
Noto is useless without a suitable localization mechanism.
I feel that I am not being taken seriously. Three times now I have
indicated what is wrong with this solution, namely that a single font
stack cannot possibly serve a global website.
I want to ask Steven and Jon how they plan on serving *all* the scripts
and languages in the world in a *single* font stack. There is not a
single font in existence that can possibly support all languages.
Again, this excercise is completely Latin-centered. Projects using
different script have no choice but to override to their native fonts,
and only Europe/Americas is left to 'enjoy' the new font stack.
Regards,
--
Erwin Dokter
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