Sazanami and VLGothic fonts

Jens Petersen petersen at redhat.com
Sun Apr 20 23:42:30 UTC 2008


Warren Togami さんは書きました:
> "VLGothic provides Japanese TrueType fonts from the Vine Linux project.
> Most of the glyphs are taken from the M+ and Sazanami Gothic fonts,
> but some have also been improved by the project."
> 
> Does this mean that VLGothic is a superset of Sazanami?

Probably Tagoh knows more detail, but my understanding is that VLGothic 
has reworked a lot of original glyphs from Sazanami Gothic, so actually 
overall they are pretty different faces now.

> (Could these be considered redundant fonts taking up space 
> unnecessarily?  I'm guessing not, but just checking to be sure.)

No, but I would only install Sazanami now for Japanese users.


Jens




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