There is a newer version of the Inconsolata fonts available in the Google Fonts repository[1], which is the official upstream according to Raph Levien's website.[2] [1]: https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/ofl/inconsolata [2]: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Sadly this version does not come with sfd source... but I can look at just packaging the ttfs possibly.
The source is a Glyphs file.[1] It can be compiled with fontmake[2], which might or might not be more complicated than it's worth. (My guess is that it would be.) [1]: https://github.com/cyrealtype/Inconsolata [2]: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 27 development cycle. Changing version to '27'.
I'd love to see Inconsolata updated in Fedora. The currently packaged version (1.01) only includes the regular ("medium") weight, whereas version 2 added a bold version. So it's not just a meaningless version-number bump: the change in readability of bold text in pretty significant. Considering I have no experience building fonts from source, is there a way I could help? What's the status of the bug?
The font is developed with the proprietary Glyphs application. The source files can be built to OTFs with the non-proprietary library fontmake and potentially autohinted with ttfautohint or psautohint (for use in Fedora this does not much matter because freetype already does it on its own and upstream says default autohinting options are sufficient). I'm guessing from the policy[1] that it is preferable to build them in Fedora instead of packaging the font files that upstream publishes on GitHub.[2] There's a review request for fontmake. Of course Kevin could decide to do something different. This is just my suggestion. [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:FontsPolicy#Building_from_sources [2]: https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata/tree/master/fonts
I'd like to point out an issue with the recent 2.012-1.fc29 update in Rawhide. So far, I've been using Inconsolata in urxvt256c-ml, launched with "-fn xft:inconsolata:pixelsize=15" parameters. Sadly, after the update, the requested font size is not taken into account, the size of about 10 is being used for terminal rendering, which makes is really unconvenient for me -- playing with the requested size has no effect whatsoever. In this sense, it's a regression, although it may be just some sort of software/font formats incompatibility. If that's the case, perhaps the alternative would be to package both 1.x and 2.x versions in parallel, leveraging package review exception for such cases, perhaps?
re [comment 6]: Sorry, PEBKAC, I didn't run full config reinitialization that was needed for my test changes wrt. font size to be indeed taken into account. The only part of the regression is then that original pixel size of 15 is now rendered at the same proportion when set to 17.
Huh. I am not seeing a size difference here really. Can you try gnome-terminal and a few other terminals and see if you see it in all of them? or just urxvt?
re [comment 8]: Hmm, I've now realized it could be related to [bug 1225873].
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