[Fontconfig] Heads up: Droid fonts update in Rawhide

[Nicolas Mailhot]

> On 07/15/2012 06:01 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>>> C. I tried to dispatch the Arabic variants in the Latin family they
>>>> were
>>>> >> designed to complement, but I may have misunderstood the design
>>>> info
>>>> >> available online.
>>> >
>>> > Please clarify 'dispatch' :-)
>> Kufi with Sans (masquerading as the Arabic block of Droid Sans) and
>> Naskh
>> with Serif the same way (see the long fontconfig ruleset I referenced)
>>
>> http://www.29arabicletters.com/foundry/?m=1-1-1&fid=26
>> states Naskh was designed to complement Serif
>>
>> and
>> https://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=17382
>> that chromium uses Kufi with Sans
>
> That may have been the case, but it is my personal understanding that we
> should dispatch Naskh with both Sans and Serif.  Kufi is a horrible font
> for
> body text.

So make kufi a separate family and keep the old droid sans arabic for
sans? Or is it also horrible in some way?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot