https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172713

V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #20 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> ---
But the one line change to the .XCU to make LATIN_TEXT sequence "Noto Sans", or
even "Liberation Sans" (the project already installs both) and the related
locale specific font sequence tweaks to en, el, uk, bg, be, mk or ru locales is
probably trivial.

Last go round for UX-advise was see also bug 159261, and that was specifically
a move over to Noto family for default fonts.  Outcome was a => WF to maintain
Libreation Fonts v2.

But, that discussion did not address the move done wef. MS Word 2007, from
template default of serif-Times New Roman to their sans-serif Calibri font. If
interoperability was a concern we should have moved default to a Sans Serif
then.

And, we've done nothing to manage compatibility as MS moved Word 2023/Office
365 to the sans-serif Aptos flavor. So question for UX (with dev/ESC feed back
on the OOXML and MS Binary filters) is if we really should be on a sans-serif
default for Western text Writer documents?

IMHO, moving LibreOffice onto Liberation Sans would probably be underwhelming,
the Noto Sans we already distribute would be more appealing, with no
substantive interoperability issues since the project already distributes the
fonts. Noto otherwise is pretty ubiquitous.  

Comparing the Unicode coverage is telling
Liberation Sans            Noto Sans
v. 2.15                    v 2.015
Unicode points 2327        Unicode points 3094
Unique glyphs 2620         Unique glyphs 4515

And while we now can set a font other than OpenSymbol for sm/mathml formulas,
as implemented for bug 101174, but module defaults for the nodes remain
opensymbol--a serif font--so another pain point to adjust defaults.

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