[ubuntu-art] Droid Fonts

Salane Ashcraft salane89 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 6 22:31:39 BST 2008


On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Jimmy Angelakos <vyruss at hellug.gr> wrote:
> Please allow me to speak frankly:
>
> I don't really see what all the fuss is about with that Droid font.
> Deja Vu Sans is a beautiful font, especially the Condensed version I
> use as my UI font. It supports many languages and looks quite modern
> without being very "blocky" as Troy calls it.
>
> Droid has extreme usability problems on my machine here. It looks very
> condensed at the UI Font selection window, even more so than
> DejaVuSansCondensed. However when I select it, it appears as a very
> plain-looking uncondensed font (even plainer than FreeSans). When I
> fire up Firefox, I get the extremely condensed version again, at the
> same time when it looks uncondensed on my desktop.
>
> What happened to the discussion about D.V.S.C. being the default font
> and why are we considering a font that *might* be open source one day?
>
> Cheers,
> Jimmy
>

Would you make a section in the Intrepid Ibex Fonts- Art Team wiki
page then? Please provide a picture of what you are suggesting and
some reasoning. Constructive criticism is important.



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Salane Ashcraft
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