[ubuntu-art] DejaVu fonts, why are they not the default font?

[Travis Watkins]

On 12/21/06, Alexander van Loon <svloon at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> In April and May 2006 there was some discussion on this list about the
> fonts used in Ubuntu.
>
> Currently the DejaVu fonts are already being shipped with Ubuntu, but
> why are they not yet the default fonts? DejaVu covers a greater range of
> Unicode than the other fonts, so why not make DejaVu the default font?
> That would also allow Ubuntu to stop shipping so many different fonts,
> why have 10+ different fonts which look more or less the same if there
> is one font which is the best choice?
>
>

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334758

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