Open fabiangreffrath opened 5 years ago
madig
commented
5 years ago Carlito and Caladea are modifications of Lato and so do not share the same style as the Liberation/Croscore family, importing them here would make little sense. I think you mean it would be nice if there was a central place/group where the usual typefaces used on *nixes are jointly maintained?
fabiangreffrath
commented
5 years ago I think you mean it would be nice if there was a central place/group where the usual typefaces used on *nixes are jointly maintained?
Not "the usual typefaces used on *nix" in general, but all the "drop-in replacements for popular Microsoft fonts". If all of these were all available from one central repository, that would be great!
Eonfge
commented
2 years ago I initially made a duplicate, so lets add my abbreviated comment here
Google didn't stop there though, and they later made an corextra package that contains two more fonts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts
As such, I was wondering, could those also be adopted into the Liberations Font project? Google themselves seems to give them very little attention. The Liberation Fonts are maintained, but it seems that the crosextra fonts are unmaintained. This is a shame, since quite a few Linux Distributions include them.
sources:
https://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/crosextrafonts-20130214.tar.gz
https://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/crosextrafonts-carlito-20130920.tar.gz
Hi there,
the Liberation fonts v2 started their lifes as forks of Google's Croscore fonts (Arimo, Cousine, Tinos). However - realizing that metric-compatible drop-in replacements for Times, Helvetica and Courier are not as relevant anymore - Google also released the Crosextra fonts. These are called Carlito and Caladea and provide metric-compatible drop-in replacements for Calibri and Cambria, respectively.
However, apparently there has not been any further development on these fonts after they have been published and no official public source repository exists. It would be nice if the Liberation project could adopt these two additional fonts, so they could benefit from the same bug fixing and range extension as the others. Also, it would be great to have all relevant replacement fonts in one reporitory!
Thanks!