[ubuntu-art] Liberation Fonts

[Kenneth Wimer]

On Monday 30 June 2008 23:21:55 Ashton wrote:
> I've loaded up Segoe and other fonts in the past. They look great, of
> course, but there are some areas where I try to stick with open, and um,
> tolerable solutions...When I first subbed Lib sans for Sans, I felt it was
> an improvement. I realize everyone is going to prefer one over another,
> though, and have no problem setting it up myself, until something better
> comes along. I believe Linux Mint uses Lib Sans as default sys font...or
> did at one point. Haven't checked Mint out in a long time.

In addition to the look of the font it is also important that the font have as 
many characters as possible so that people who speak other languages also get 
all that goodness...let's not forget that aspect.

Ken

> A bit hypocritical since I use plenty of other non-free solutions for
> various things...but yeah, who knows why we do the tings we do?
>
> Máirín Duffy, art dev at Fedora, has a study of fonts and licensing that
> someone might find interesting:http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/fonts/
>
> I don't know what Fedora Sulphur is using as default sys font, though. Is
> it Liberation?
>
> Ashton
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Salane Ashcraft <salane89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I will suggest using specifically any Humanist Sans Serif font for the
> >
> >> system theme. I will be on the look out for an open source font that
> >> follows this description.
> >
> > Example:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Frutiger.svg
> > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Myriadsp.svg
> >
> >
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