On 25 January 2012 23:59, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote: > The typeface that comes closest to our needs is Andika [1]. It has a > 'bowl a' (a good thing) but it also has a hooked 9 (a bad thing). It > also isn't very legible at small sizes. > > I'm surprised that no fonts that meet our criteria appear to exist. > How are the characters "a" and "9" taught in schools in other > countries? > > > [1] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Andika
Just a thought - how feasible would it be to take an existing open-licensed font (there are lots of good ones) and substitute in an "a" and "9" that are more consistent with Australian classroom learning? I think that means that we'd only have to design two glyphs, making them look consistent with the others. Sridhar _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
