Re: Cantarell font

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Kenneth Nielsen <k nielsen81 gmail com> wrote:
> I have just had a look at the font and I can reassure the Danish,
> Swedish, Norwegian and German teams that we should be on the safe side

More languages are. From [1]:

Each font file currently contains 391 glyphs, and fully support the
following writing systems: Basic Latin, Western European, Catalan,
Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Dutch and Afrikaans. To date, Pan
African Latin has only 33% glyph coverage.

[1] http://abattis.org/cantarell/

> for our special characters (if I have remembered all of them). The
> following characters are present in both the regular and the bold
> version of the font.
>
> æøåöäÆØÅÖÄß
>
> Regards Kenneth
>
> 2011/2/17 Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian grijincu gmail com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> GNOME3 will feature a new default font: Cantarell
>> http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/gnome-3-getting-better-by-the-day/
>>
>> I don't know who took this decision, why and on what merits and I
>> don't want to start a flame war on this.
>>
>> The font is quite limited with respect to character coverage. For
>> example it does not have all characters required for the Romanian
>> language (I've recently added those characters and sent a message to
>> the maintainer).
>>
>> I suggest the other language teams see if the font has support for all
>> characters needed for their language.
>>
>> The font sources (with ttf and odf binaries) are here:
>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/cantarell-fonts/
>>
>> --
>>  .
>> ..: Lucian
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Duy