[Bug 526607] Review Request: openfontlibrary-smonohand-font - A handwritten monospace font

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Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-10-01 17:53:24 EDT ---
Thank you for submitting a new font package for review. I hope you'll find the
process smooth and friendly, please do not hesitate to tell us what could be
made better if something bugs you.

Anyway, for the review

1. we use oflb as prefix for openfontlibrary fonts 

2. the author claims he created this font in fontforge, so it'd be a good idea
to beg for the sfd file upstream and build the font from source in the rpm

3. there is no licensing trace in the ttf file, and web pages are unfortunately
not future proof. Please ask upstream to release the font in a zip file that
includes a detached .txt licensing file (or at least use the fontforge button
that embeds the OFL text in the .ttf)

4. IMHO this font should be classified as "fantasy" not "monospace" (see
fontconfig-generics.txt in fontpackages-devel)

5. Why do you reference Droid Sans Mono in your fontconfig file? If that's
because you cut and pasted from the Droid file, you have clean and documented
fontconfig templates in fontpackages-devel (in
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/). The lastest rawhide version is probably the
best reference for anything ≥ F11 (I'll probably push it to F11 if I stop
finding things to improve every other week)

6. IMHO it is wrong to alias Chalkboard or Comic Sans MS if you're not sure
Smonohand is very close both in looks and metrics. The reason being looks only
are not sufficient, if the letters are different sizes documents written will
one of the other fonts will end up repaginated with smonohand. Usually when we
alias a font is much closer than just 'looks like it'

7. 65 is probably too high a prio for a fantasy latin font,  63-64 should be
fine (see fontconfig-priorities.txt)

For a first try this is a nice package, you just need to spend some time
reading the little documentation we have in fontpackages-devel and you'll be
fine.

NEEDINFO till this submission progresses

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