On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to find a font to use for the Sugar UI that has characters > formed in the way they are taught in Australian schools (and probably > in other countries too). The default Sans Serif font (and most fonts > I've seen) have "a" and "9" characters with hooks. I'm after a font > with a uses a "bowl a" and "9" with a vertical (not curved/hooked) > stem. > > I've tried to explain this (with pictures) at > http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1035 > > Thanks, > Sridhar >
You might be interested in Didact Gothic http://openfontlibrary.org/font/didact-gothic Family Didact Gothic License OFL (SIL Open Font License) Category Sans-serif Description Didact Gothic is a sans-serif font designed to present each letter in the form most often used in elementary classrooms. This makes it suitable for literacy efforts The font supports all of Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, and most of Latin Extended-A. It supports almost all Latin-alphabet European languages. It also supports the major Cyrillic scripts, including non-Slavic languages, as well as modern and polytonic Greek. Full Language Support Baltic, Basic Cyrillic, Basic Greek, Basic Latin, Catalan, Central European, Euro, Igbo Onwu, Pan African Latin, Polytonic Greek, Romanian, Turkish, Western European, _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
