Hi, How about creating a condensed generic? The concept of having a tighter style than normal seems pretty culture-agnostic to me, and we already have several widely used fonts in this category. Putting condensed fonts in serif or sans just seems broken to me. We don''t put monospace serif fonts in serif Example: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts-condensed-fontconfig.conf?annotate=1.1&root=extras Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 11:28 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:> Hi, > > How about creating a condensed generic? The concept of having a tighter > style than normal seems pretty culture-agnostic to me, and we already have > several widely used fonts in this category."Condensed" is generally considered a typographical variation rather than a characteristic of a face.> Putting condensed fonts in serif or sans just seems broken to me. We don''t > put monospace serif fonts in serifmonospacing is a characteristic of a face though, you can''t take a face designed for normal proportional spacing and ''monospace it'', while a face can easily be ''condensed''. -- keith.packard@intel.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20060925/52580887/attachment.pgp
Le Lun 25 septembre 2006 17:38, Keith Packard a ?crit :> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 11:28 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:> monospacing is a characteristic of a face though, you can''t take a face > designed for normal proportional spacing and ''monospace it'', while a > face can easily be ''condensed''.However, this is a software technical view, from the users point of view being condensed is as much a characteristic as being monospace. Just as some uses call specifically for monospace fonts, others call for condensed fonts. I''d agree with you if the apps presented condensed as just another variation like bold or italic Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot