https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1818565
Bug ID: 1818565
Summary: Review Request: itf-poppins-fonts - A geometric sans
serif Latin and Devanagari font family
Product: Fedora
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Component: Package Review
Severity: medium
Priority: medium
Assignee: nobody(a)fedoraproject.org
Reporter: nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net
QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: package-review(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Target Milestone: ---
Classification: Fedora
Spec URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/f...
SRPM URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/f...
Description:
uring the 1920s, Central European type foundries joined the modernists
movements in art and design. Modernism was truly international in scope; only
three years after the founding of the German Bauhaus school, several of its
painting instructors were already exhibiting their work in Calcutta.
Geometric sans serif typefaces have been a popular design element ever since
these actors took to the world’s stage. Poppins is one of the newest comer to
this long tradition. An open source family supporting both Devanagari and
Latin, this typeface is an internationalist take on the geometric sans genre.
Many of the Latin glyphs — the ampersand, for instance — are far more
constructed and rationalist than in previously released geometric typefaces.
Poppins’s Devanagari design is particularly new. It is likely the first-ever
large Devanagari family in this style that has been brought to market.
The Poppins family includes all of the unique conjunct forms necessary for
typesetting Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, etc. Just like the
Latin glyphs, the Devanagari forms in Poppins are based pure geometry
(particularly circles). Poppins’s letters are practically mono-linear, although
optical corrections have been applied to stroke joints where necessary, to
maintain an even color in text. The Devanagari base character height and the
Latin ascender height are equal; Latin capital letters are shorter than the
Devanagari characters, and the Latin x-height is set rather high.
The Devanagari glyphs in Poppins were designed by Ninad Kale. The Latin is from
Jonny Pinhorn. The Indian Type Foundry first published Poppins in 2014.
Fedora Account System Username: nim
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