ornicar
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9 years ago Noto font packs to use:
cyrillic: av, be, bg, ce, cu, cv, kv, mk, os, ru, sr, uk
cyrillic-ext: ab, ba, kk, ky, mn, tg
greek: el
latin: aa, ae, afm ak, an, ay, az, bi, bm, br, bs, ca, ch, co, da, de, ee, eo, es, et, eu, ff, fi, fj, fo, fp, fr, fy, ga, gd, gl, gv, ho, hr, ht, hz, ia, id, ie, ig, ik, io, is, it, jb, jv, kb, kg, ki, kj, kl, kr, kw, la, lb, lg, li, ln, lt, lv. mg, mh, mt, na, nb, nd, ng, nl, nn, nr, nv, ny, oc, oj, om, pl, pt, qu, rm, rn, rw, sc, se, sg, sk, sl, sn, so, sq, ss, st, su, sv, sw, tk, tl, tn, to, tp, ts, tw, ve, vi, vo, wa, wo, xh, yo, za, zu
latin-ext: cs, cy, gn. hu, mi, ro, sm, tr, ty
ghost
It would be great if additional font packages were made for all of the world's languages. It would mean any user can experience lichess's staple style the way it was intended to be seen.
I can understand fully why only Latin is included at the moment. Including every script in the package would be too much bandwidth for the average user, because the average user is only interested in their language of preference.
Instead, font packages could be made for each language, depending on the script used. The server will serve only Cyrillic and font-icon packages for the Russian language. Dropping Latin for other languages shouldn't be an issue, thanks to pull requests #228 and #247.
If you think the bandwidth cost is too great, feel free to shutter this issue immediately.
On a related note, if you are okay with this issue, I also recommend switching to Noto Sans. I was recommended this by someone who does a fair bit of i18n and can confirm it looks better in other languages. The Latin typefaces don't look half-bad either, by my own estimation.
Noto is an improvement over Open Sans, again by Google. Noto makes Open Sans characters a bit less light and changes the Latin g's to true sans-serif style. It also has a much wider range of characters for other languages.