Am 03. Dec, 2016 schwätzte Stephen Partington so:
Google fonts
Domo arigato for fonts roboto.
Never heard of them. Not a surprise that they exist as Google likes tech
that gives people a common experience on the web and has lots of projects
to make that happen.
In my original post I pointed out that it's awesome that distributions
support so many options. It's also awesome that some people take fonts
seriously so the rest of us don't have to. A couple of times I've
scratched the surface as to what it takes to make a font and was impressed
by the work that goes into making functional fonts.
There are also the great designers who put a lot of effort into choosing
just the right font for something. I'm obviously not one of those :).
Interesting, the Google fonts packages don't get along.
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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fonts-roboto-hinted : Conflicts: fonts-roboto-unhinted but 2:0~20160106-1
is to be installed
fonts-roboto-unhinted : Conflicts: fonts-roboto-hinted but 2:0~20160106-1
is to be installed
Conflicts: fonts-roboto-hinted:i386
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Hinted it is. Wonder when they'll make a "I'm Feeling Lucky" font package
that automagically determines which font is best. Hmm, bet that have that
for android... :)
ciao,
der.hans
On Dec 3, 2016 10:13 AM, "der.hans" <[email protected]> wrote:
moin moin,
I'm at my once a decade point of caring about fonts.
It's awesome that distributions support so many languages, but Urdu,
Klingon and Thai having legible fonts are not going to help me read them.
fonts-gfs-complutum - ancient Greek font revival from the University of
Alcalá, Spain
That's cool and useful for a friend, but it's been a while since I've
spoken any Greek aside from Opa[0].
So, aside from grepping out 50 languages, how do I determine which debian
packages I should install to get all the cool fonts that will enrich my
digital culteral experience?
I might be asking the same thing about CentOS and Fedora next week, so
rpm-based answers also welcome.
I am mostly concerned about xterm, konsole, GIMP and LibreOffice. In that
order.
[0] Leaving aside the many English words derived from ancient Greek, etc.
ciao,
der.hans
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