Andrew Laignel wrote: > Tiago Souza wrote: > >> Are fonts within our scope? Can we change it? Will we change it? I'm >> wondering why we are not discussing it.. >> >> Cheers! >> > I agree. I generally find the fonts in Ubuntu a little too big and > spindly. I really like the typography in this > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=31128 mockup - second > image down especially. Tactful use of fullcaps & bold are nice. It > also makes things look less cluttered when they are smaller. > > We need to be nice to the short-sighted old folks though. I've found > they have quite a lot of problems when it comes to reading small text - > maybe an alternate theme the same, but designed for high visibility > would be an idea too? > Hi Andrew! There was a meeting regarding fonts at Ubuntu Developer Summit (and via speaker phone). If I recall correctly the consensus was to not change the fonts. I agree that alternative fonts in the interface might look spiffy, but readability comes first together with coverage in a massive amount of languages. What would be interesting though is if we could package some cool free fonts for content creation (gimp, inkscape, scribus, krita etc.). I think Máirín Duffy have been doing some work on that for Fedora [1], might be worth checking the status of that and if it can be used for Ubuntu as well.
1. http://mihmo.livejournal.com/45152.html - Andreas -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
