Support for sFamilyClass font attribute to allow searching by serif style
Submitted by Eric Wasylishen
Assigned to Akira TAGOH @tagoh
Description
The OpenType spec has a field called sFamilyClass in the required OS/2 table, which allows the font designer to classify the font based on a "family class" (e.g. serif, sans-serif) and "family subclass" (e.g. modern, old style).
See:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/os2.htm#fc
and:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/ibmfc.htm
It would be really nice if Fontconfig read this field from fonts and allowed searching based on it (probably treating it as two separate fields: maybe FC_FAMILY_CLASS and FC_FAMILY_SUBCLASS?)
In my opinion, this kind of classification would be really useful to present to users for choosing fonts. I would be happy to write a patch if you think this is a good idea.. :-)
Version: 2_1