On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 4:41 PM home user mattisonw@comcast.net wrote:
On 5/24/22 12:31 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/23/22 22:45, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 21:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
You're not seeing the whole name. If you click on them, you'll see they are different. Regular and 3 types of condensed.
That's how I knew they were 4 different fonts.
Terrible GUI design if it doesn't give you some indication that the name's been truncated. Are users supposed to around clicking on everything, now?
I don't think it's truncated. I suspect it's something to do with the way the font metadata is defined, but I don't know for sure. There are other fonts where that information is shown, so it's not the font app that's hiding it.
Either way, there is a problem here. Yet I suspect that a bug is not the way to get this addressed. This is a significant problem, and will probably take a serious task/project to fix it. ...a font clean-up task/project. How do I propose it?
Unfortunately, widely used open source fonts often get multiple forks -- some that add support for additional languages, some that "improve" details of shapes and metrics. You end up with a font that is needed by those who require a certain language but that also cause problems with some tools or when used in existing documents that don't embed fonts due to changes in metrics.
Fonts are essentially programs, and like programs, you can have multiple forks with conflicting goals and coding styles that rely on features outside the language specification.
If you use open-source fonts that attempt to replace legacy PostScript (Laserwriter 35) fonts you run risks if you try to use them for things that you couldn't do with the original fonts.
Font creators now often include license clauses to require name changes for modified versions.