So basically, Liberation is meant to be the default serif, sans-serif and
monospace in documents such as web pages? Just saw some screenshots of
Liberation being used as the system font, and while I don't think it's ugly,
I can understand what you mean. Nice to hear that Dalton Maag have been
commissioned to make a new font.

Michiel

On 30 March 2010 11:42, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> wrote:

> The Liberation fonts exist only for width compatibility with documents
> that were using Helvetica and Times New Roman. They are too ugly to use
> for anything else, and we won't be using them in Ubuntu's interface. As
> described in <http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/308>, Dalton Maag
> is working on a new interface font for Ubuntu, currently scheduled for
> 10.10.
>
> ** Changed in: libgnome (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Won't Fix
>
> --
> Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/81608
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