Hello everyone. It's nice to see so much enthusiasm on that topic. Please keep in mind that it's important to pick a font that has an extense support/fallback for unicode. Ton mentioned the idea of bundle Blender with a few fonts. I'm afraid the size of those fonts is too big. Unless we add them as a separate package
I compiled Blender here with the Droid http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=7479 <http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=7479>patch available here: http://www.filedropper.com/showdownload.php/droidfont Quoting my blender-design-font-specialist friend [1]: It may need some adjustments (default size + hinting [2] ). I have no idea how Blender handles fallbacks (when a char is available in another ttf file). But I'm assuming it will be supported eventually (and Droid does have the asian set in another ttf file). Regards, Dalai [1] - http://www.blog.ohweb.com.ar/ [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting [3] - Droid Fonts downloaded from: http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender www.dalaifelinto.com 2010/12/13 jonathan d p ferguson <[email protected]> > hi. > > On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Harley Acheson wrote: > > > > > There are actually quite a few very good fonts that have very > > good multi-language support and have good licenses. My > > current favorite is the "Droid" family of fonts, commissioned > > by Google and released under the Apache license. > > > > Droid - http://www.droidfonts.com/ > > Ubuntu Font Family - http://font.ubuntu.com/ > > Linux Libertine - http://www.linuxlibertine.org > > Bitstream Vera - http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ > > > > Indeed. The "Free World" now has many wonderful fonts to choose from: > > See [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] for places to find FOSS fonts. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_Unicode_typefaces > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts > [3] http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/ > [4] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL_fonts > [5] http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts > [6] http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ > [7] http://www.stixfonts.org/ > [8] http://www.scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html > [9] http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/ > [10] http://www.scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html > > have a day.yad > jdpf > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
