Missing non-Latin and extended Latin script characters

[claysmalley]

The typeface used for labels, Metropolis Bold, is missing many Latin letters with diacritics.

Examples of missing letters in labels:

Chișinău, Moldova

Bắc Giang and Hải Dương, Vietnam

[1ec5]

It would be possible to produce font PBFs that composite Metropolis with a fallback font that covers more of Unicode’s Latin blocks. However, Metropolis is a relatively unique font, and I haven’t come across a fork of it that adds more character support.

This could be an opportunity to replace Metropolis with an altogether different font, bundle it with the Americana package, and deploy it over GitHub Pages. After all, if we’re aiming for a familiar road atlas aesthetic, then the typefaces are a big part of that. Road atlases have used many typefaces, but one as geometric as Metropolis is rare, because space economy is usually a consideration.

[ZeLonewolf]

Note there was no design choice on my part to use Metropolis, it was just one of the few I could figure out how to get working.

[claysmalley]

Non-Latin scripts confirmed to be missing:

• Cyrillic
• Greek
• Georgian
• Armenian
• Arabic
• Hebrew
• Cherokee
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
• Tifinagh
• Ethiopic
• Devanagari
• Bengali
• Gurmukhi
• Gujarati
• Odia
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Kannada
• Malayalam
• Sinhala
• Thaana
• Tibetan
• Burmese
• Khmer
• Thai
• Lao