Hi, On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Dalai Felinto <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
I can take a look at that :) > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
