#8175 NORM Future : Include Andika Basic: a Unicode sans-serif smart open font designed for literacy and beginning readers

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#8175: Include Andika Basic: a Unicode sans-serif smart open font designed for
literacy and beginning readers
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 Reporter:  yosch        |         Owner:  sj            
     Type:  enhancement  |        Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal       |     Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  distro       |       Version:  not specified 
 Keywords:  fonts        |   Next_action:  never set     
 Verified:  0            |     Blockedby:                
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 A sans-serif smart open font called Andika Basic designed for legibility
 and to address literacy needs is available under the Open Font License.

 It is already packaged by the Fedora Font SIG:
 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIL_Andika_fonts

 The Unicode coverage includes extended Latin and IPA characters. Greater
 coverage will be available in future release but this font is already very
 useful as such:

 {{{
 Alphabetic Presentation Forms: 2/80 (2.50%)
 Basic Latin: 95/128 (74.22%)
 Combining Diacritical Marks: 20/112 (17.86%)
 Currency Symbols: 1/48 (2.08%)
 General Punctuation: 17/112 (15.18%)
 Geometric Shapes: 2/96 (2.08%)
 Greek and Coptic: 2/144 (1.39%)
 IPA Extensions: 20/96 (20.83%)
 Latin Extended Additional: 216/256 (84.38%)
 Latin Extended-A: 91/128 (71.09%)
 Latin Extended-B: 85/208 (40.87%)
 Latin Extended-C: 3/32 (9.38%)
 Latin Extended-D: 4/224 (1.79%)
 Latin-1 Supplement: 96/128 (75.00%)
 Letterlike Symbols: 2/80 (2.50%)
 Mathematical Operators: 14/256 (5.47%)
 Private Use Area: 18/6400 (0.28%)
 Spacing Modifier Letters: 15/80 (18.75%)
 }}}


 I successfully tested it with build 708.

 It would be very good if we added it to the current build.

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