On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > <srid...@laptop.org.au> 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,
If Didact Gothic doesn't appeal to your aesthetic sense, you might try googling the terms font and literacy together as the results should be worth investigating. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=font+literacy cjl _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep