Hi, Ideally speaking, it would be an application issue and may want to fix it there. That said, there are not few such applications yet which have a problem with variable fonts. However, there are no effective workarounds unfortunately. There are already a few packages that have conflicts between static and variable to avoid such issues but it is basically to workaround _after_ seeing an issue and ask for users to install a static font package and remove variable font due to that conflict. For a long term goal, we may need to implement something to identify static, variable, and "don't care" in rpm dependency and add a requirement in packages which requires a font and choose proper one without any interaction after installation. On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM Benson Muite via fonts <fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am reviewing amir-samaano-fonts [1], which includes a variable font. When both variable and fall back regular fonts are packaged, some applications such as Inkscape may have difficulty indicating which fonts are available. If just a variable font is packaged, Inkscape and other applications such as Abiword, Gimp and Krita, seem to be ok and give reasonable options for thin, medium and bold weights and for italic and underline. Application support is evolving. Should packagers choose to either package the variable fonts or the classical fonts, or if both are offered, make them conflicting separate packages? > > The current release does not have good support for color fonts, for example try Kalnia Glaze Fonts[2], but support for these is still growing in applications outside of web fonts. > > 1) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330850 > 2) https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fed500/fmedrano-kalnia-glaze-fonts/ > -- > _______________________________________________ > fonts mailing list -- fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to fonts-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Akira TAGOH -- _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list -- fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to fonts-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
