Doot-doot-doo... installin' 1.1Gb of fonts on my system 'cause it can't find one glyph...

@ElectricKeet Dumped the whole zipfile into ~/.fonts, letting Ring Zero sort it out.

@literorrery Yyyyyup. It gets worse if you peer into the stuff that's in development. Every major language group has its own font. Many have serifed siblings. Many have italic variants. Many have four different widths. Most have seven weights. It's crazy-go-nuts... and then there are the CJK fonts as a separate batch. 1400 font files.

I had the whole lot installed for a while, then realised that I was basically never going to see most of them in everyday use and stripped the lot down.

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@ElectricKeet I'm going to find a use for them, so help me. I __will__ find a reason to have them installed.

Maybe they'll end up as variable names in the Python code my coworker keeps pestering me to write for him.

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