toropisco [1] filed a deletion request for otf-literata [2]:

Hi, in the light of the recent harassment by xiota, I as the package
maintainer request this package be removed from the repository.

I have two main reasons:

1. The fonts are proprietary and have not been updated in several
years, as Google has focused its resources on developing the TrueType
variable version for at least 5 years now. It was a good idea when
there was no OFL licensed TrueType fonts. That's not the case anymore.

2. TrueType and Postscript font rendering are way to different both on
screen and print to have people shot their feet by installing both
versions.

3. I'm too old to deal with teenage drama. Whoever wants to grab a
copy of the OTF fonts, can grab an upstream APK from one of the
gazillion pirate sites in the internet and extract the fonts
themselves.

As a preemtive move, I have already locked out the upsteam source used
by the PKGBUILD.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/toropisco/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/otf-literata/

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