[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 84625] New: please add Arkpandora to metric aliases

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            Bug ID: 84625
           Summary: please add Arkpandora to metric aliases
           Product: fontconfig
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: fc-match
          Assignee: fontconfig-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: fabian+debian at greffrath.com
        QA Contact: freedesktop at behdad.org

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 Its upstream is no longer active and its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] http://ostatic.com/arkpandorafonts/
[2] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/fonts-arkpandora_2.04-1.html

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