[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 7531] Is it right that ExtraLight should be so thin that it's unusable?

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------- Additional Comments From moyogo at gmail.com  2006-07-15 12:18 -------
I think we'll end up changing ExtraLight's family name from "DejaVu Sans" to
"DejaVu Sans ExtraLight", by family name I mean NameID 1. The 'preferred family
name', i.e. NameID 16, could then be 'DejaVu Sans'. Unfortunately very few apps
are able to use the preferred family names.

This change of family names would add a new font to the current Gnome/KDE apps
font dialog, but would prevent any of those to select ExtraLight as the default
DejaVu Sans. In any case, this is an issue that should be fixed in apps.

See http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/name.htm for more info.          
     
     
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