[ubuntu-art] Fonts

[Andreas Nilsson]

Andrew Laignel wrote:
> Tiago Souza wrote:
>   
>> Are fonts within our scope? Can we change it? Will we change it? I'm
>> wondering why we are not discussing it..
>>
>> Cheers!
>>     
> I agree.  I generally find the fonts in Ubuntu a little too big and 
> spindly.  I really like the typography in this 
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=31128 mockup - second 
> image down especially.  Tactful use of fullcaps & bold are nice.  It 
> also makes things look less cluttered when they are smaller.
>
> We need to be nice to the short-sighted old folks though.  I've found 
> they have quite a lot of problems when it comes to reading small text - 
> maybe an alternate theme the same, but designed for high visibility 
> would be an idea too?
>   
Hi Andrew!
There was a meeting regarding fonts at Ubuntu Developer Summit (and via 
speaker phone). If I recall correctly the consensus was to not change 
the fonts.
I agree that alternative fonts in the interface might look spiffy, but 
readability comes first together with coverage in a massive amount of 
languages.
What would be interesting though is if we could package some cool free 
fonts for content creation (gimp, inkscape, scribus, krita etc.). I 
think Máirín Duffy have been doing some work on that for Fedora [1], 
might be worth checking the status of that and if it can be used for 
Ubuntu as well.

1. http://mihmo.livejournal.com/45152.html
- Andreas