[ubuntu-art] Font suggestions

[Salane Ashcraft]

Yes which ever has better international support - Liberation or Droid - but
for sure use Droid Sans as the system font- for windows, menus, widget text,
notifications, etc etc...

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Ashton <cogneato at gmail.com> wrote:

> Erm, I suppose an easy test would be to open up OpenOffice, and compare two
> identical paragraphs using the two fonts to see if they break in the same
> place...in regard to the metrics...durf. Like I said, no font expert.
>
> Ashton
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Ashton <cogneato at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So how does Droid compare in terms of the language support mentioned
>> earlier? Maybe it has broad support if it's main purpose is to support
>> Android. Also, if Droid was made by the same people who made Liberation,
>> maybe the metrics were given the same attention? IANAFE (I am not a font
>> expert : p) so I wouldn't know. But I do recognize the
>> importance/convenience.
>>
>> Ashton
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Kenneth Wimer <kwwii at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 02 July 2008 19:04:37 Salane Ashcraft wrote:
>>> > So I just looked at it again- we could possibly just use Droid fonts
>>> for
>>> > everything...
>>> >
>>>
>>> Right, I have been using them on my desktop and they are pretty nice (and
>>> very
>>> condensed). I think that OOo and other such office apps should still use
>>> the
>>> liberation fonts as document fonts (if possible) due to their similarity
>>> to
>>> the MS fonts.
>>>
>>> Ken
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