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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

<strike>Please remove the depends on fontconfig and all the xorg-* entries, those are obsoleted by upstream hook changes in Arch. Also 'ttf-sil-fonts' is now a meta package, so providing that doesn't make any sense, and not all the fonts it depends on are listed here. Google fonts only has some of those fonts. I'll be updating the ttf-google-fonts-opinionated-git package with these changes shortly, if you'd like me to fix this at the same time please add me as a co-maintainer.</strike>

Edit: I see I already said most of that last month. Maybe just the suggestion to add me as a co-maintainer is new ;-)

Just a quick note that comments aren't falling on deaf ears--apologies for the radio silence. I've been tracking updating this package (along with several others) in my backlog and have put aside time tomorrow night to address concerns/issues. Thanks for understanding

Please remove the provides/conflicts for ttf-sil-fonts as this package does not currently supply all the same fonts. Also that is now a meta-package that depends on specific font packages, all built from their latest upstream releases. Even the fonts that are in google fonts are frequently out of date, but they are not all there. Listing provides/conflicts for specific packages that overlap would be fine.

I get the following error when trying to install:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
ttf-google-fonts-git: /usr/share/fonts/caladea/Caladea-Bold.ttf exists in filesystem (owned by ttf-caladea)
ttf-google-fonts-git: /usr/share/fonts/caladea/Caladea-BoldItalic.ttf exists in filesystem (owned by ttf-caladea)
ttf-google-fonts-git: /usr/share/fonts/caladea/Caladea-Italic.ttf exists in filesystem (owned by ttf-caladea)
ttf-google-fonts-git: /usr/share/fonts/caladea/Caladea-Regular.ttf exists in filesystem (owned by ttf-caladea)

It looks like Caladea was recently added to Google Fonts and ttf-caladea exists in [extra]:

I don't know how, but you need to make the dependencies, ttf-merriweather-sans and ttf-merriweather, mutually exclusive.

Attempting to install this package while choosing to use the ttf-merriweather provided by ttf-google-fonts-typewolf, results in an installation error because ttf-merriweather in ttf-google-fonts-typewolf actually installs the MerriweatherSans fonts.

es20490446e, Juma7C9: Just pushed a change up where I added a prepare for reverting the offending Rubik commit as well as pulling adobeblank out entirely per the suggestion. Thanks! es20490446e, with #2, I still get an error relating to the zcool-xiaowei font and can confirm both through the git history as well as running fc-query -f '%{family[0]|downcase|translate( ,-)}\n' ZCOOLXiaoWei-Regular.ttf that we're still seeing "站酷小薇体" as the resultant text. We'll want to keep the last two mv lines for the time being. I'll need to think on #3.

Okay, these could be:

1. rm --recursive "${srcdir}/fonts/ofl/adobeblank"

2. Remove the Chinese characters work-around, as now all fonts names use Latin characters.

3. Do not perform "install" on the files. But "mv" them, then set permissions with "find -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx {} \;" "find -type f -exec chmod u=rw,g=r,o=r {} \;". So you skip having to copy 1.5GB of data.

es20490446e: Yes I am and it's been on my todo for quite some time.. I'll make a priority to look at what needs to be changed tomorrow.

Are you still maintaining this package?

The conflict with noto-fonts-emoji can be fixed with:

rm --recursive "${srcdir}/fonts/ofl/adobeblank"

Reported the issue with that font upstream:

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/2106

Feedback was that the font isn't meant to be installed.