[OpenFontLibrary] Incomplete fonts/dingbat fonts

[Liam R E Quin]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 08:54 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> [...] its a latin1 encoded font without a cap A, and so its obviously
> not a fully useful font. Therefore OFLB ought to politely decline it
> as a submission and ask me to fill out the caps, I think.

This might reject the Old English fonts that supplied half a dozen
supplementary characters for Times Roman.  Watch out also for
historical fonts that are usually "incomplete" (e.g. there is
usually not a U or J in capitals, often no x in lower case,
although there will sometimes be æ and œ), they're incomplete
because the manuscript or inscription has what it has.

Maybe consider flagging such fonts as "incomplete"?
> 
> This raises a problem for dingbat fonts, which we have some of, which
> have random glyphs used. I think the solution there is to direct such
> fonts to OCAL, right?

Is this "text font snobbery"? :-)

I strongly agree with a push for quality, but I think rejecting
isn't the right long-term approach.  Maybe a critique system.
Not just ratings because most people won't like a font that
defines just a few variant glyphs, but the specialists who need
it may well consider it essential.

Liam

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