Fonts

[George Brooke]

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:16:54 +0200
Jelle de Jong <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote:

> 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
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jelle
> 
There's been some discussion on the art mailing list and as a user
(from the screen shots) I really can't see that either is hugely better
than the other.

solar.george
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