On 02/19/2016 01:21 PM, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
Hi Francisco,
Francisco Adrián Sánchez píše v Ne 14. 02. 2016 v 14:19 -0300:
Please, reconsider the use of Carlito as a *default* font. It has serious
design issues which came with the "modification" of the original font,
Lato, from which Carlito takes its symbols.
For example, Carlitos "eight" character is taller than the rest, making
documents look weird:
http://6g6.eu/sih0-carloto-vs-lato-3.png
This is because the symbol it self is taller, and it isn't a hinting
problem. This is a comparison of "O", "zero" and "eight" characters made
with FontForge:
http://6g6.eu/sih0-carloto-vs-lato-2.png
On the other hand, I haven't found any flaw in Caladea's design. However,
Caladea has a smaller symbol base than Cambria. Thus, we would be
*discriminating* Greek and Cyrillic-writer people.
Thus, unless Carlito's design is revised and corrected, and Caladea's
symbol base is completed, IMHO those typefaces shouldn't be the _default_
typefaces in LibreOffice documents.
These are good points; luckily these sound like fixable problems :-)
Can you please collect the problems more precisely - which exact
characters (or character ranges) are missing, what characters have
design problems, etc.
Also if you can double-check the metrics compatibility with the C* fonts
(like if the pair kerning is really the same etc.) [I believe they
really are, but in case there are some corner cases, or anything.]
Based on that, I'd ask the TDF Board to consider a tender to fix such
Carlito and Caladea issues; I hope it might fit the 2016 UX budget.
Thank you for your help!
All the best,
Kendy
Personally, I think you cannot have any font that has "everything" for
"everyone's" needs.
I really thing we need to have a good/free unicode font that has many of
the characters/glyphs that are available.
Actually, I may have the largest font collection of most people using
LibreOffice [14+ GB worth of TTF and OTF fonts]. Seems to me that most
of the non-specialty fonts seem to be "similar" to each other serif to
serif and sans to sans. Yes there are minor differences, but unless you
compared them side-by-side, you may not easily tell the difference
between them.
I do wish LO can find a set of the best freely available fonts to bundle
with LO's installations, but that is really easy to say and not easy to
do. I end up with 250 to 500+ font files, depending on what the system
is being used for, or how long it has been since I last looked as
removing the fonts I have not used for months or years. IT seems that I
keep adding fonts with specific names - like Carlito, Caladea, Droid,
and many others - that people have indicated was needed or was mentioned
in "conversations" like the one that is on these email lists. On this
Ubuntu 15.10 [64 bit] laptop I have 490 files in the .font folder
[unknown how many font names there are]. Actually this figure is after
I reduced the number of fonts [names] by a third or so in January.
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