Idea: Let selection of default fonts be based on Noto

[TJ]

On 30/08/2023 10:32, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> On 2023-07-14 17:13, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> On 2023-07-13 09:37, TJ wrote:
>>> Could you consider including the visually-impaired friendly
>>> Atkinson Hyperlegible Font?
>>>
>>> https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
>>
>> To me it looks like a reasonable font to make selectable in Ubuntu.
>> But before that can be really considered, it would need to be
>> packaged in a sensible way for Debian. Even if the Atkinson
>> Hyperlegible font files are actually included in the
>> texlive-fonts-extra package, they would need to be broken out into a
>> separate package.
> 
> Package created:
> 
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/mantic/fonts-atkinson-hyperlegible
> 
> Maybe that is sufficient. A user can do:
> 
> sudo apt install fonts-atkinson-hyperlegible
> 
> and pick Atkinson Hyperlegible in the web browser and/or Tweaks.
> 
> Otherwise, if we want to include it on the ISO, I'm assuming that we should have a blessing from the desktop team before submitting a MIR.

Thank-you - that is really useful for visually impaired operators (and that includes those with reasonably good vision that is starting to go fuzzy at close range!).

Being used in the installers (or an easily found Accessibility option) would be  icing on the cake. Having to hunt for such support often makes those needing it feel like second-class citizens yet for something like this there is very little, if any, down-side to everyone using this by default (especially in an installer where the defaults should cater for all use-cases where there is no opportunity to customise the early experience - particularly for newcomers and novices).