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Assyrian Syriac fonts need to be broken up - the merged font set is unusable in most situations #13

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SargisYonan opened this issue May 26, 2022 · 3 comments

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@SargisYonan
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SargisYonan commented May 26, 2022

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NotoSansSyriac

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Starting in v20201206 I believe

Issue
NotoSansSyriac combines Estrangelo, Eastern (Madenkhaya), and Western (Serto) scripts into one font. These fonts are only distinguishable seemingly by an ISO 15924 system language tag change. Derogatory naming of the ISO 15924 tags aside (SYR-SYRN for the eastern font implying the "Nestorian" script; SYR-SYRJ for the western font implying the "Jacobite" script), they are unusable in mostly any offline application.

e.g. how would one differentiate which font they'd like to use when the font is installed offline and used in a word processor?

Outside of a web environment, the newer thin and bold faced Eastern and Western script fonts are effectively unusable.

Please consider separating the fonts into 3 separate fonts once again.

@SargisYonan SargisYonan changed the title Assyrian Syriac fonts need to be broken up. The merged font set is unusable in most situations Assyrian Syriac fonts need to be broken up - the merged font set is unusable in most situations May 26, 2022
@r12a
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r12a commented May 26, 2022

See also https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/issues/1863

@marekjez86
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we'll separate it, but I'm not certain when

@simoncozens
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Let's move this to #10.

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