I don't think we should push this. It clearly looks significantly worse than 0.0.25 we had before. There are many issues with the spacing between glyphs in words, and between words. There are also issues with vertical positioning of glyphs and words in a few cases. I have posted more details to the desktop list.
I think we should stick with 0.0.25 for F28 unless the new series is cleared up so it's at least arguably approximately equal in quality, I don't think it's anywhere close to that yet.
The author acknowledged these issues on IRC:
(madigens[m]) adamw: thanks for the feedback :) cantarell's spacing does indeed look a bit funky... in gtk3 and firefox. that's due to a missing technical detail called "subpixel positioning". Spacing looks more consistent in Qt apps and Chrome. there also isn't any kerning yet, so things like AVA, To, etc. look gap-y
Of course, most of GNOME is "gtk3", and Firefox is the default Workstation browser.
Displays with overcompensation of x-widths in characters most notably in the character 'o'.
Libre Office
Passable at various sizes but some slight inconsistencies in x-width are noticed with lowercase characters
Gnome Text Editor
Further inconsistencies are noticed with x-width of lowercase characters regardless of counters or bowls (e.g.; e, a, and c cause illegibility in many words)
Firefox Windows
Worst display of all with lowercase characters "running into" each other
This update has been submitted for testing by kalev.
This update has been pushed to testing.
Works for me.
Works fine, and looks beautiful.
kalev edited this update.
looks good to me
This update has reached the stable karma threshold and can be pushed to stable now if the maintainer wishes.
Works
I don't think we should push this. It clearly looks significantly worse than 0.0.25 we had before. There are many issues with the spacing between glyphs in words, and between words. There are also issues with vertical positioning of glyphs and words in a few cases. I have posted more details to the desktop list.
I think we should stick with 0.0.25 for F28 unless the new series is cleared up so it's at least arguably approximately equal in quality, I don't think it's anywhere close to that yet.
The author acknowledged these issues on IRC:
(madigens[m]) adamw: thanks for the feedback :) cantarell's spacing does indeed look a bit funky... in gtk3 and firefox. that's due to a missing technical detail called "subpixel positioning". Spacing looks more consistent in Qt apps and Chrome. there also isn't any kerning yet, so things like AVA, To, etc. look gap-y
Of course, most of GNOME is "gtk3", and Firefox is the default Workstation browser.
works for me
Unpushing as per Workstation WG's decision on 2018-03-26 to stick with old Cantarell for Fedora 28.
This update has been unpushed.