Comment 2 for bug 673949
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| Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote Re: [Bug 673949] Re: Technical: Light/Medium/Regular/Bold, investigate /etc/fonts.d/ to map bold to next level up for each | #2 |
On 11/11/10 18:09, Denis Jacquerye wrote:
>> Non-designers may wish to see a list that looks more like:
> What do you base this assumption on?
> I don't see why a non-designer user wouldn't benefit from having all the styles in the same family.
High-end design apps tend to allow for the selection of a specific
weight, like Light or Medium, whereas most typical desktop apps just
know about "regular and bold". So arranging the fonts in such a way that
they show up as "Ubuntu" in the high end app, with custom weight
selection, and as "Ubuntu", "Ubuntu Light" etc in the normal
wordprocessor, sounds smart to me if it can be achieved in a
standardised way.
Mark