FS#33111 - [ttf-inconsolata] Improved Hinting (also bold) available

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Opened by Matthew Iversen (Ivoz) - Monday, 17 December 2012, 02:20 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Thursday, 24 December 2015, 17:56 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
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Description:

Hi there, I have noted that in the Google Web Font repository, David Crossland has made a better hinted version of inconsolata, and Kirill Tkachev has also made a Bold version of the font.

Especially for hinting, which inconsolata tends to have problems with, would you consider using these newer sources of the font?

Thanks,
Matt Iversen

Additional info:

http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/ofl/inconsolata/
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Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Thursday, 24 December 2015, 17:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  ttf-inconsolata-20151221.480630d
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Tuesday, 18 December 2012, 09:55 GMT
Any reason that Raph Levien (original author) didn't merge these? Is this supported by the original author? I don't feel really comfortable switching to a fork (?) with the same name as the original without answers to these questions.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 01:34 GMT
We always ship vanilla packages. Please contact with the original author (Raph Levien) if you want to see these improvement.
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Wednesday, 20 August 2014, 22:56 GMT
The author hasn't maintained Inconsolata since 2009. I recommend shipping the .otf fonts (not .ttf) from the above Mercurial repo. In addition to that, also include the further improved (and renamed) versions from the TeX archive, see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/inconsolata/ .
Comment by Peter Petrov (onestone) - Friday, 06 March 2015, 20:34 GMT
The lack of a Bold version causes issues in Konsole. Details are described here: https://becomingaglider.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/inconsolata-the-programmers-friend/

+1 for switching to the Google Fonts version, which includes Bold. I think it can be considered the current officially maintained source for Inconsolata.
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Saturday, 07 March 2015, 12:38 GMT
I'm not going to switch at this point. There is a discussion going on to get to a unified upstream. I'll wait for a few more months to see if that is going somewhere before I make a decission about which of the multiple forks to use.
Comment by doggone (doggone) - Sunday, 20 December 2015, 19:06 GMT
From upstream's homepage:

Update 2015-12-04: The official release of Inconsolata is at Google Fonts, and official upstream is on github. These versions have better Windows hinting and some fixes.
Comment by Matthew Iversen (Ivoz) - Monday, 21 December 2015, 04:31 GMT
http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html See top paragraph

New source

https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/ofl/inconsolata

Cheers for spotting doggone

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