Noto font for Plasma 5.5

[Eric Hameleers]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, Jonathan Riddell wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:38:58AM -0700, Eric Hameleers wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>>
>>> The Plasma team plan to switch to Noto for Plasma 5.5
>>>
>>> https://www.google.com/get/noto/
>>>
>>> Distros will need packages of it. Let me know if anyone has problems with this
>>>
>>> Jonathan
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>> Almost 500 MB download for these fonts? I surely hope that you only
>> want to use a small subset. I will have a problem in Slackware
>> otherwise - 500 MB add-on just for some fonts will meet with a veto
>> in the distro.
>
> I think that's the source for the complete set.  The Latin languge set is under 1 MB and the complete set minus CJK is 13MB as packaged in Ubuntu.
>
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The 469 MB ZIP file contains 131 TTF fonts and 36 OTF fonts - no 
source, only actual fonts.
I think it will be good if you are *very* specific about the exact 
Noto fonts you expect distributions to carry.

Cheers, Eric

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