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7:02:40
beach
loke[m]: Weren't you supposed to give a presentation of Climaxima for the online Lisp meeting.
7:03:11
loke[m]
Well, I discussed it a few weeks ago. But I haven't even started on the presentation yet.
7:03:44
beach
Oh! I remember you told phoe to give you a deadline, 'cause otherwise you would procrastinate indefinitely.
13:35:10
loke[m]
I would vote against fira sans. You need a more "bland" font as default. Such as dejavu
14:08:55
john-a-carroll
I do academic research in natural language processing, and DejaVu is a good choice of font for many western languages
14:09:48
jackdaniel
heh, neither is good from a perspective of putting a binary in a git repository; but that's git fault, not the font
14:10:50
jackdaniel
we right now look for dejavu fonts, so maybe to keep the visual change at minimum we should use them (although they are bigger than roboto)
14:13:07
john-a-carroll
Sorry, I was misled by the restricted sample of glyphs at https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto#glyphs - roboto does seem to have reasonable language coverage
14:15:04
jackdaniel
(some context: I'm looking at the the font renderer because I'm refactoring clx backend rendering to default to xrender where possible - and unifying i.e xlib:picture accesses)
14:19:27
jdz
I personally am not a big fan of DejaVu Mono (but then again, I compile my own Iosekva...)