Upstream version 0.80 release announcement:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/font/2011-September/000001.html
Upstream status, release notes and changelog can be found at:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+milestone/0.80
The new upstream version includes five extra .ttf font files; one for Ubuntu Condensed, and four covering Ubuntu Mono, a monospace set that is presently in the process of being hinted by Vincent Connare. The compressed, and uncompressed sizes of the additional files involved at:
$ for i in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu{-C,Mono-}*.ttf ; do echo `basename $i`; wc -c < $i ; gzip -c < $i | wc -c ; done | xargs -n3 echo | tr " " "\t" | awk 'BEGIN{print "Name\t\tUncompressed\tCompressed";U=0;C=0}{U+=$2;C+=$3;print}END{print "Totals:\t\t\t"int(U/1024)"kB",int(C/1024)"kB"}'
Name Uncomp Compressed
Ubuntu-C.ttf 350420 169738
UbuntuMono-BI.ttf 216208 128324
UbuntuMono-B.ttf 191400 108844
UbuntuMono-RI.ttf 210216 116292
UbuntuMono-R.ttf 205748 113208
Totals: 1146kiB 621KiB
An available-size budget of ~621kB kB would be required. It is intended that the increased of 621kB in disk space will be traded by shipping roughly three wallpapers less. Should an UVFe and FFe be granted, this would allow providing fixes for:
Bug #853855 ("PUA: ensure that Ubuntu Circle of Friends logo is full size")
Bug #640382 ("Wish for addition of a monospaced member to the family")
Bug #791076 ("Emacs: choosing normal monospace font in Emacs but gives bold-italic")
Bug #820493 ("Mono: No hinting yet - Ubuntu Beta Mono font looks jagged")
The additional presence of these fonts would be unlikely affect the appearance of the Ubuntu experience unless they were actually used by a theme configuration or otherwise enabled by the user. The release candidate (0.80~rc) packages have been on-test for several days by ~2,000 people inside Canonical and the Ubuntu font beta team. The only issues picked up so far are with sub-optimal hinting, but this is known to be a work-in-progress, with non-final hinting for the Ubuntu Mono being delivered by Dalton Maag on 2011-09-22 in order to enable testing and inclusion before the Ubuntu Freeze deadline.
Hinting is an optimisation stage that distorts the shapes in the font for black-and-white only rendering and it is not necessary for the functioning of the fonts in the environment required.
Have raised this on #ubuntu-release:
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One possibility would be to trade 3–4 wallpapers from the 'ubuntu-wallpapers' collection (see bug #829213).