Fonts

Jelle de Jong jelledejong at powercraft.nl
Mon Jul 7 20:18:06 UTC 2008


jmak wrote:
> Hi,
> In order to produce a real high quality desktop environment every
> little detail counts, including fonts. There is an absolutely high
> quality font family that has been created for Goggle, called Droid.
> Ubuntu has been negotiating with Goggle to completely open-source
> them. If they succeed, the font family will be used on Ubuntu as
> default system fonts. They are mac quality fonts and look great on
> xubuntu too. If the negotiations succeed, we should also use them as
> default system fonts. Download and try them out. From here:
> 
> http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender
> 
> jmak
> 

Just curious but what's wrong with the liberation-fonts?

Why don't we use them?

https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/

http://damieng.com/blog/2007/05/17/red-hat-releases-liberation-fonts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts

http://www.google.com/search?q=liberation-fonts

Kind regards,

Jelle





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