Comment 0 for bug 673949
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| Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote Technical: Light/Medium/Regular/Bold, investigate /etc/fonts.d/ to map bold to next level up for each | #0 |
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Designers seem to prefer selecting one Typeface from a list, and then selecting between all the styles and weights offered within that. In this case two entries would be seen in the Font selection menu:
1. Ubuntu (+ 9 choices)
2. Ubuntu Mono (+ 4 choices)
Non-designers may wish to see a list that looks more like:
1. Ubuntu (+4 choices)
2. Ubuntu Condensed (+1 choice)
3. Ubuntu Light (+ 4 choices)
4. Ubuntu Medium (+ 4 choices)
5. Ubuntu Mono (+4 choices)
In this case, the idea would be to have each font "up weight" to the next in the family; applying bold weight to Light actually maps to Medium; then emboldened Medium maps to Regular:
Codensed?
Light Italic→Medium Italic→Regular Italic→Bold Italic
It should, hopefully be possible to effect this purely with a mappings file dropped into /etc/fonts/conf.d, rather than needing to mess with the actual files themselves in a way that might potentially upset designers later or at a stage when the basic font dialogues have been improved.