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If you're having an issue upgraded with errors related to fonts like merriweather, here's my steps to resolve the issue (assuming you have Yaourt):

#Clear out what you had before

yaourt -R fonts-meta-extended-lt
sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)
sudo pacman -R ttf-google-fonts-git
sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)

#Install dependencies

yaourt -S ttf-merriweather-sans ttf-opensans ttf-oswald ttf-quintessential ttf-signika
yaourt -S fonts-meta-extended-lt

#Heads up, if ttf-impallari-cantora isn't fixed yet, change the PKGBUILD source to the URL in the comments on the package

yaourt -S ttf-impallari-cantora
yaourt -S ttf-google-fonts-git

I get an inner conflict error trying to install with yay (9.0.1):

:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
==> Inner conflicts found:
 -> ttf-google-fonts-typewolf Conflicts with: ttf-fira-sans, ttf-opensans, ttf-roboto
Unavoidable conflicts, aborting

One of the new fonts doesn't have proper name in English:

: Can't translate pathname 'usr/share/fonts/站酷小薇体/' to UTF-8 : Can't translate pathname 'usr/share/fonts/站酷小薇体/ZCOOLXiaoWei-Regular.ttf' to UTF-8 : Can't translate pathname 'usr/share/licenses/ttf-google-fonts-git/LICENSE.站酷小薇体' to UTF-8

Perhaps we should rename it to something that uses latin alphabet (ZCOOLXiaoWei probably?).

Just installed the package. Build fails, because some files have new names (without special characters). Can confirm previous comments: Just remove the section from the PKGBUILD starting with:

"# NOTE: Since the nanum* and hanna Korean font families have special characters we need to change"

Should we tag this package as unmaintained?

+1 for zip and please fix the PKGBUILD issue with Korean fonts, it's literally commenting out 6 lines...

+1 for downloading as zip, and fix for Korean fonts related problem

Running git clone to download this repo is incredibly slow, especially on a fairly poor network connection. I think this could be changed by downloading using the archive.zip (as recommended in https://github.com/google/fonts#download-all-google-fonts), it'll download a lot faster (as proven by running locally on my machine). Not only will this download faster, but it's a lot less data, due to the fact it's not downloading the full repo history.

We could maintain version support by using git ls-remote to build the version number.

JohnnyDeacon: Yes. There was a lull in activity upstream for several months but it looks like it's picked back up somewhat consistently. I'll be revisiting this package and making updates shortly.

Is this still maintained?

Anybody getting this error?

==> Starting package()... mv: cannot stat ' ... pkg/ttf-google-fonts-git/usr/share/fonts/배달의민족-한나': No such file or directory

Fixed by removing the

# NOTE: Since the nanum* and hanna Korean font families have special characters we need to change # those folder names to prevent errors during package compression.

section

Google currently packages only 3 Indic fonts from the Lohit project: Bengali, Devanagari, and Tamil. However, the Lohit project supports many more Indic languages and fonts, viz. Assamese, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Oriya, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil-Classical, Telugu.

Could you please make the following changes to PKGBUILD:

1. The last line of the package() function should have: find ${pkgdir} -iname "lohit" -delete
2. Remove 'lohit-fonts' from the conflicts and provides arrays.

If you think it's important, you could add 'lohit-fonts' to your depends array. But if you don't, people who need it can install 'lohit-fonts' on their own, and not worry about conflicts with existing packages.