Fonts

[jmak]

On 7/7/08, George Brooke <solar.george at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Look at the differences, in terms of resolution, clarity and screen
space economy.

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/3581/fontsyh5.png

jmak