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title="NEW - please add Arkpandora to metric aliases"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84625">84625</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>please add Arkpandora to metric aliases
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<th>Product</th>
<td>fontconfig
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>fc-match
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>fontconfig-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>fabian+debian@greffrath.com
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>freedesktop@behdad.org
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<pre>Dear fontconfig devs,
there is another, less well known font family which provides metric aliases for
specific MS fonts called Arkpandora. Its upstream is no longer active and its
original homepage is dead, but the fonts are still available for download [1]
and are currently waiting for acceptance into Debian [2].
The package contains Aerial and Aerial Mono as replacements for Arial and
Courier, repsectively, Tymes as a replacement for Times New Roman and --
probably the most interesting piece of the set -- Veranda as a replacement for
Verdana.
The fonts seem to be stretched variants of Bitstream Vera and might not look as
professional as Liberation or Crosscore. But at least they provide suitable
alternatives and I prefer fontconfig to support as many alternatives as
possible out-of-the-box.
Please tell if you want me to provide a patch.
Best regards,
Fabian
[1] <a href="http://ostatic.com/arkpandorafonts/">http://ostatic.com/arkpandorafonts/</a>
[2] <a href="https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/fonts-arkpandora_2.04-1.html">https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/fonts-arkpandora_2.04-1.html</a></pre>
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