Incomplete notes from the Typography + GTK+ session at GUADEC 2015

GUADEC-2015-typo-BoF-notes.txt

Incomplete notes from the Typography + GTK+ session:
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New default fallback font: Noto
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* Noto as the default fallback instead of Deja Vu
* Mangle names to map to just "Noto" to avoid polluting the font namespace
* Noto as fallback for Cantarell
 - fontconfig file to do so
* New fontconfig metaconfig for things like headings (document hierarchy)
* System-wide monospace setting? Do people use that? Disable it?
* Fix Cantarell metrics to match Noto


Emoji
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* For Emoji; use Noto Emoji
  - Metrics need to match Cantarell
* Emoji input support
  - (Ctrl+Shift-U / Gtk+ Compose)
  - gcharmap
  - Shell search provider
  - GtkEntry pop-up
* Emoji infrastructure
  - Implemented as a bitmap
  - Colour is interesting
  - Everything else works


OpenType features
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* Putting into documents that people create
* Punctuation that adjusts itself according to surrounding text (small caps, numerals, etc)
  - Pango is responsible for this
* Optical sizing


Misc
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* "Get more fonts" in the font chooser
  - Fetches from a free font provider (like Google Fonts)
  - Figure out if Google Fonts degrades the fonts in some way (ask Dave)
  - GNOME Software is a "shitty experience" for browsing fonts, and requires the distro to bundle it
  - Curated list of high quality fonts?
* AI for creating websites ("The Grid")

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[No notes from me for the pure Typography BoF; Allan has some]