Bug 1634793

Fontconfig doesn't report a spacing property for the 2.012 ttfs while it does for the older 2.000 ones that I could find.  pango_fc_family_is_monospace would not return true for the new ones.

Filed https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata/issues/27 upstream about this.

Another datapoint, for emacs-26.1-3.fc28.x86_64, the font shows as available, but when used, appears to fixed at about 7-8 point, which is too small to be usable, but reports the size as 10.  Attempts to change the size appear to be accepted, but no size change is visible. When another attempt to change the size is made, it shows being at 10pt regardless of the size reported from the last change attempt.

I did not mention this in the released F29.

(In reply to Yanko Kaneti from comment #1)
> Fontconfig doesn't report a spacing property for the 2.012 ttfs while it
> does for the older 2.000 ones that I could find. 
> pango_fc_family_is_monospace would not return true for the new ones.

Any chance to roll back the version to 2.000 in the interim?

I would like to reinforce the ideia, that we should probably rollback the version... I use the font for my coding and at the moment my VIM looks ugly as it's defaulting to the default system fonts..

This is still an issue with levien-inconsolata-fonts-2.012-3.fc30.noarch .

As being unable to use a terminal font in a terminal renders installation moot, downgrading to the most recent working (but now unsupported) version, levien-inconsolata-fonts-1.01-16.fc28.noarch, and excluding the upgrade in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf, mitigates the problem.

I mask off levien-inconsolata-fonts.noarch 2.012-3.fc30 in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo by adding exclude=levien-inconsolata-fonts.noarch ath the bottom of the [fedora] section. I don't mask in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf since, hopefully, upstream will eventually fix the package and an update will appear in the fedora-updates repo which I do not mask with an exclude.   The upstream package has weird new sizes on some of its glyphs and it's no longer recognized by fontconfig as an acceptable monospace font, so it falls off the edge of the font world completely.

In Fedora 30 I've installed the font from the repo: https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata/tree/master/fonts/otf

and they work as expected. I had to remove the font from the RPM package.

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As noted upstream v3.000 of the fonts sould probably fix this

FEDORA-2019-56ede6a987 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-56ede6a987

FEDORA-2019-7a757645e6 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-7a757645e6

levien-inconsolata-fonts-3.000-1.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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levien-inconsolata-fonts-3.000-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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levien-inconsolata-fonts-3.000-1.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

levien-inconsolata-fonts-3.000-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Created attachment 1646962 [details]
inconsolata in Emacs started looking v e r y   b a d...

(In reply to Andy Grover from comment #19)
> Created attachment 1646962 [details]
> inconsolata in Emacs started looking v e r y   b a d...

same here

Would you be willing to file this upstream? https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata ?

I note that it's not all the faces that do this, ie, the 'semi condensed' one looks 'normal'...

v2 to v3 is a major version upgrade (pushed in stable releases) and it changes user experience - the new fonts look totally different and IMHO are hardly readable. I had to revert the update on my systems.