Hi Steinar, Quoting Steinar H. Gunderson (2020-11-10 18:42:02) > Package: fonts-noto-mono > Version: 20201027-3 > Severity: grave
Why the severity? Visual changes does not seem reason release-critical to me. "completely broken" need more than a vague suspicion, IMHO. > For unknown reasons, Noto Mono looks completely different after I > upgraded my unstable machines recently, to the point that it's not the > same font anymore (for one, it has serifs). This affects multiple > machines, both rxvt-unicode and gnome-terminal, both X11 and Wayland, > and goes away if I downgrade. Compare the stable and unstable fonts > below (the version of fonts-noto-mono installed when urxvt started is > the sole difference between the two windows): > > https://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/noto-mono.png > > The upper (stable) also matches what the font looks like if I look at > https://www.google.com/get/noto/#mono-mono. You can see some fragments > of it in the screenshot; look at e.g. the lowercase g. Google dropped Noto Mono a few years ago. We kept it alive, until recently when Google re-introduced Noto Mono. The main goal of Noto fonts is large coverage, and second to that is coherent style across scripts. I am not surprised that the re-introduced Noto Mono has changed visual style. I would consider it a feature, not a bug. Google does not maintain a changelog nor do they make proper releases, so we are left to guessing about their intents with these fonts. > gnome-terminal doesn't even list Noto Mono in its list of available > fonts, so I'm wondering if it does some sort of fallback and that the > font just is completely broken somehow. If Noto Mono fails to work at all, then that is indeed a severe bug - but I would consider that a _different_ bug than "looks completely different" as you've framed the subject of this bugreport. I don't mind treating this bugreport _only_ being about this more severe issue, if you prefer - but if you weant to discuss both the visual style and the disappearance from some apps, then please file either as a separate bugreport. I am not familiar with gnome-terminal, I only use urxvt myself. urxvt can be told to use one specific font, but that only really works for X11 bitmap fonts - for tryetype fonts it can only beg fontconfig to prefer one, like this: rxvt-unicode -fn 'xft:Noto Mono' This shows which actual fonts are most likely used: fc-match -s 'Noto Mono' | head -n 5 Thanks for reporting this, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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