Description: Both Noto Sans and Serif fonts have multiple weights and styles, they will dramatically increase installation package size, while they are replaced by variable version of Noto Sans and Serif, you will make package smaller. Steps to Reproduce: N/A Actual Results: N/A Expected Results: N/A Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: https://notofonts.github.io/noto-docs/
Maybe, but absent UI work needed for bug 152206 to do anything with the variable fonts is there *really* any reason to swap out the fixed weight Noto fonts? Install size is not a very good reason otherwise.
Would also note bug 159752 and how we'd already dropped a bunch of the unsupportable weight faces, how would variable weight fonts behave? For starters IIRC they'd have to stamped out in process as usable fixed weight fonts anyhow.
As LibreOffice is already able to support variable fonts, it is also able to reproduce fixed weight from variable fonts as well, this is handled via STAT table, which doesn't require special UI to tweak font weight and others. If you are used Microsoft Windows, you may have already experienced with Bahnschrift font. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/stat
(In reply to Volga from comment #3) > As LibreOffice is already able to support variable fonts, it is also able to > reproduce fixed weight from variable fonts as well, this is handled via STAT > table, which doesn't require special UI to tweak font weight and others. If > you are used Microsoft Windows, you may have already experienced with > Bahnschrift font. > > See: > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/stat Hmm, don't believe it does. Rather, Windows installs individual weight faces of Bahnschrift which LO picks up. The named fixed weight faces of the family are the only renderings available to LO on Windows at least. Though I don't know how builds for macOS or Linux DEs are doing with variable fonts--just that our UI for handling extended faces of a variable font are still limited to what os/DE passes as installed for display in listbox, or the character dialog.
Please, see also Bug 152396 - Font width (expanded, condensed, etc.) is not supported Right now there is no reliable way to use complex variable fonts on LibreOffice, you always get the wrong width. At least with the static fonts those widths are split on different font families.
So I guess this would be blocked by bug 152396 and potentially others, but given the work needed, maybe close as won't fix, at least for now?