Hi Sebastiaan, I've just added fonts team to the Cc. Since I'm not very experienced in this matter some one from team can provide some suggestion.
Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebas...@xs4all.nl> writes: > Hi Vasudev, > > On 10-11-15 17:13, Bas Couwenberg wrote: >> On 2015-11-10 16:46, Vasudev Kamath wrote: >>> Since Android upstream stopped shipping Droid fonts and its been >>> declared that Noto fonts will be superseding the Droid¹² we in >>> "Debian Fonts Task Force" team decided to drop fonts-droid package. >>> >>> One of your package josm either >>> Depends/Recommends/Suggests/Build-Depends on fonts-droid. I kindly >>> request you to do the switch to fonts-noto instead. >> >> The josm package uses the font-droid package in favor of the embedded >> copies included in the JOSM source tree, I've created an issue in the >> upstream tracker requesting them to switch to the Noto fonts too. This >> should keep the divergence of the Debian package to a minimum. >> >> I'll update JOSM package to use the Noto fonts whether or not upstream >> decides to adopt them too. > > From the discussion in the upstream JOSM issue [0] it's become clear > that the Noto font is not sharp as the Droid font it's meant to replace. > > In response to this concern raised by the JOSM developers I created an > issue in the upstream noto-fonts issue tracker [1] in which I asked if > it's possible to improve the sharpness at small font sizes. > > Do you have any suggestions how to improve the Noto font to be as sharp > as the Droid font at small font sizes, before I raise the issue on the > freetype-devel list as suggested in the noto-fonts issue? > > [0] https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/12085 > [1] https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/556 Dear pkg-fonts team, Do you guys have any suggestion on the above issue mentioned by Sebastiaan.
