Bug 84625

Summary: please add Arkpandora to metric aliases
Product: fontconfig Reporter: Fabian Greffrath <fabian+debian>
Component: fc-matchAssignee: fontconfig-bugs
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
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Attachments: add Arkpandora fonts to metric aliases

Description Fabian Greffrath 2014-10-03 09:06:17 UTC 
Dear fontconfig devs,

there is another, less well known font family which provides metric aliases for specific MS fonts called Arkpandora. Its upstream is no longer active and its original homepage is dead, but the fonts are still available for download [1] and are currently waiting for acceptance into Debian [2].

The package contains Aerial and Aerial Mono as replacements for Arial and Courier, repsectively, Tymes as a replacement for Times New Roman and -- probably the most interesting piece of the set -- Veranda as a replacement for Verdana.

The fonts seem to be stretched variants of Bitstream Vera and might not look as professional as Liberation or Crosscore. But at least they provide suitable alternatives and I prefer fontconfig to support as many alternatives as possible out-of-the-box.

Please tell if you want me to provide a patch.

Best regards,

Fabian

[1] http://ostatic.com/arkpandorafonts/
[2] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/fonts-arkpandora_2.04-1.html
Comment 1 Fabian Greffrath 2014-10-06 07:32:32 UTC 
Created attachment 107393 [details] [review]
add Arkpandora fonts to metric aliases

> Please tell if you want me to provide a patch.

Anyway, here it is.

 - Fabian
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