please add Arkpandora to metric aliases
Submitted by Fabian Greffrath
Assigned to fon..@..op.org
Description
Dear fontconfig devs,
there is another, less well known font family which provides metric aliases for specific MS fonts called Arkpandora. Its upstream is no longer active and its original homepage is dead, but the fonts are still available for download [1] and are currently waiting for acceptance into Debian [2].
The package contains Aerial and Aerial Mono as replacements for Arial and Courier, repsectively, Tymes as a replacement for Times New Roman and -- probably the most interesting piece of the set -- Veranda as a replacement for Verdana.
The fonts seem to be stretched variants of Bitstream Vera and might not look as professional as Liberation or Crosscore. But at least they provide suitable alternatives and I prefer fontconfig to support as many alternatives as possible out-of-the-box.
Please tell if you want me to provide a patch.
Best regards,
Fabian
[1] http://ostatic.com/arkpandorafonts/ [2] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/fonts-arkpandora_2.04-1.html