No dia 26 de Abril de 2012 23:35, Manuel Quiñones <ma...@laptop.org> escreveu: > Hi list, > > I will try to wrap an interesting discussion that has arisen today on > IRC. We talked about a better default font for our e-book reader, > Read activity, and the possibility to add a new feature to change that > font (in the activity itself or as a system setting). Obviously not > for landing in this cycle, we have a lot of pending things to do, but > would be nice to keep trac on this if there is some consensus. > > I'm cc'ing Guillermo Espertino, professional free software designer, > and Dave Crossland, font consultor at Google Webfonts, who also > participated. Please answer to all because they may not be in > sugar-devel mailing list. > > So, the current default is DejaVu LGC Serif. HoboPrimate suggested > Century Schoolbook L as a better font. Guillermo said to me that > Gentium Book would be the ideal. > > But Gonzalo, current Read maintainer, said that he has intentions to > move to Sans. Now I understand that Serif fonts are being used in > books more because of historical reasons, and that we should think > what would be better for children. He also pointed that teachers ask > for a hand-writting font, and that there are special fonts designed > for dyslexic people. > > Finally, Dave pointed us to http://kidstype.org and the Fabula > typeface. Looks interesting indeed. > > -- > .. manuq .. > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
I took some screenshots of Read reading and Epub document with 4 of the 5 fonts mentioned above (on a normal laptop): http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Fonts_For_Reading Eduardo _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
