Wow! Default Droid fonts for F14 would be so amazing! Hope we can get that sorted! :)
Fab On 7 Jun 2010 18:29, "Paul W. Frields" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 10:43:17PM +0200, Kris Thomsen wrote: >> 2010/6/5 Máirín Duffy <[email protected]>: >> > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 18:59 -0400, Ian Weller wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 05:12:53PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: >> >> > We don't actually have an official body text font (I tend to use >> >> > Liberation Sans when laying out body text), maybe we should pick a >> >> > specific one and add it to our brand guidelines. >> >> >> >> The whole MgOpen not having accents thing has bugged me since my >> >> development of fedora-business-cards, where I used Máirín's FAS >> >> information as a test to see if my code worked with Unicode. >> >> >> >> But anyway. You'll never guess what I have in the brand guidelines draft >> >> I'm working on. :) >> >> >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ianweller/Brand_guidelines_(draft)#Fonts >> >> >> >> We could use either Liberation or Droid. It matters not to me. >> > >> > I would word it more strongly than that, I would say it's meant to be a >> > titling font, for secondary wordmarks, and for accents/callout, and body >> > text should be $whatever-good-body-font-we-pick. >> > >> > I really like Droid Sans... >> > >> I agree, Droid-fonts are really great :) And a Modata-like font for headlines :) > > +1 for that here, too -- find a Modata-like font with more > accent/diacritical coverage(*) for headlines, and use Droid Sans for > body text. > > I think it's worth pointing out that the Fedora Desktop SIG has been > discussing moving Fedora 14 to default to Droid Sans, assuming some > remaining issues are worked out. > > * * * > (*) That's what's meant by glyphs, right? Character coverage? > > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
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