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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Raghav Gururajan <rg@raghavgururajan.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [fontconfig]: Default Font
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 11:03:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735qfkt3a.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa067467-2b34-aacf-dd99-cff169e8d1cf@raghavgururajan.name> (Raghav Gururajan's message of "Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:30:22 -0400")

Hi Raghav,

Raghav Gururajan <rg@raghavgururajan.name> writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> In the package-definition of fontconfig, the default font is currently
> set to font-dejavu. I was wondering if we could change it to 
> font-gnu-freefont, for following reasons:
>
> [1] Provides multiple formats (ttf, otf and woff).
> [2] Is a GNU package.

Does it have as good of a glyph coverage as font-dejavu?  Is it as
pleasing to the eye?  I'm not against the change, but we'd have to
review if it's equivalent to deja-vu.

Thanks,

Maxim


      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-08 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-18 17:30 [fontconfig]: Default Font Raghav Gururajan
2021-09-08 15:03 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]

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