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21304	gnome font change for  gnome-48	ken@…	ken	"In late February, the Adwaita Sans font was added to fontconfig as an alias for system-ui (i.e. use for UI messages). That implies it covers more than just some Latin languages.

The Gnome-48 release notes, [https://release.gnome.org/48/] say:
New Fonts

GNOME has a new interface font in version 48, as well as a new monospace font. Named Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono, these new fonts look fantastic, and also have many practical advantages over the previous fonts, with better rendering, more extensive character coverage, and support for a range of modern font features.

Adwaita Sans is a customized version of the popular Inter typeface by Rasmus Andersson, and provides polished and versatile typography, optimized for high-density displays. Adwaita Mono is a custom build of the Iosevka typeface family. It is well-suited for terminal use and plain text editing, with excellent readability and incredibly extensive language coverage.

These new fonts improve visual harmony in GNOME while maintaining accessibility and aesthetic balance. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the creators of these two fantastic openly licensed typefaces, and encourage our users to support their work.

The fonts can be found at download.gnome.org/sources/adwaita-fonts at [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-fonts], specifically [download.gnome.org/sources/adwaita-fonts/48/] for the current versions.

AdwaitaSans has Regular and Italic TTFs, AdwaitaMono has Regular, Bold, Italic and BoldItalic weights

The current tarball version is 48.2. If I read correctly, the TTFs are licensed under the OFL, but the whole tarball (including the source) is licensed under GPL v3.

At this point I have no idea where these Adwaita fonts are referenced in Gnome, and I do not have any idea of what they cover. I hope to take a minimal look in the next few weeks."	enhancement	closed	normal	12.4	BOOK	git	medium	fixed