[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 103080] A new default set of bundled fonts

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103080

--- Comment #25 from Yannick.D <ya.della at gmail.com> ---
tldr; Why bother at all and mess up any documents for 2MB? Whats the logic
behind picking those 4 fonts?

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #23)
> 
> We keep some fonts for compatibility reasons but others that are not absolutely
> necessary shouldn't be installed by any application.

Thats a valid goal. But what about all the other fonts than? And is it worth
touching some Benjamins documents for a mere 2MB?

Open Sans is a rather popular web font whose name might be known to users. Will
it at least fall back to Noto Sans automatically if removed? Also it is used in
an Impress template called "Impress" that has been around for ages - what about
that?

("Alizarin" uses Source Sans by the way but in cuts "Source Sans Pro Black" and
"Source Sans Pro Light" which aren't shipped by LO. -- They don't follow the
official naming scheme either which would simply be "Source Sans Pro" in light
or black weights.)

As I said: why keep two-digit MB worth of Graphite-fonts hardly anyone needs?
And if so, they are probably power users able to download and install those
files on their own. (There are OTF versions available as substitutes which
support the very same features now but are considerably smaller in size and use
a much wider spread technology.)

I would argue for a more fundamental reorganization of bundled fonts including
discussing default templates (and maybe couple it with a font downloader
"addition"). As was the initial scope of this report. A future goal could be to
only ship one set of very high quality fonts for each language/character set
which are used by default templates. And to give users an easy way to download
missing fonts which are than handled by the OS.

(Personally I would rather see the Source family replacing Liberation once the
Serif finally sees italics than removing it altogether. Arguably of much higher
typographic quality. But also a matter of taste of course.)

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