https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162872
--- Comment #3 from Regina Henschel <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2) > (In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #0) > > The "Source Sans Pro" has letter-spacing and line > > distance similar to "Aptos". > > 1. How similar? 45 lines, 12pt: Aptos 227mm, Source Sans Pro 234mm, Arial & Liberation Sans 213mm, DejaVu Sans 217mm, Noto Sans >252mm, Tahoma 225mm inside a line, same text part: Aptos 144mm, Source Sans Pro 140mm, Arial & Liberation Sans 149mm, DejaVu Sans >168mm, Noto Sans 158mm, Tahoma 150mm Of cause it would be nice to have a free font that has metrics as similar as Liberation Sans to Arial. > 2. Has this been studied methodically, or is it more of a cursory impression? Not methodically, I have used only some fonts I have installed. > 3. What is the set of freely-redistributable fonts from which Source Sans > Pro was chosen as the closest? Besides the above also Verdana and Segoe UI (not free, but available on Windows). (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1) > Maybe. > > But how useful would this really be? The example presentation is just Aptos > normal--and yes the Source Sans Pro at least is close in metrics in width if > not the height/leading. Does that hold though with Aptos light, semi-bold, > bold, extra-bold, black and their italic rendering. And, what of Aptos's > other faces? Narrow, Serif, Display and Mono... We only need to consider those variants that are used as default in MS Office. I think, that are Aptos and Aptos Display for text in presentations and Aptos Narrow for table cells in spreadsheets. Word uses Calibri. > > If we had the Aptos fallback hardcoded would we then be well served/forced > to restore bundling of Source Sans Pro (dropped for bug 136604, though > restored to CO)? In my opinion, it need not be bundled. But a hint or link on the download page would be useful. Especially text in shapes need a font similar to Aptos, otherwise you get ugly text overflow. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
