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[Tools-discuss] Re: xml2rfc: boldface in Noto Sans

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Fri, 03 October 2025 18:16 UTC

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On 9/22/25 8:02 PM, Rob Sayre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was thinking about this one on the drive home. I also recall that the 
> font rendering libraries vary in their willingness to do pseudo bold and 
> italic characters.

Hi,

And indeed, Skia is making a different choice here.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/447361040#comment7

They say:

"I suggest for rfc-editor.org to include the bold variant of the font in 
the Google Fonts CSS."

I do not agree with them. I think their synthetic bold is not very good, 
since it is not bold. But including the bold face variant will look 
nicer anyway.

thanks,
Rob

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