Times or Times New Roman --> Linux LibertineSerif - according to the
Times wiki page.
The others, I will have to look up again to get what is listed as the
best free versions as a replacement,; though DejaVu Sans works well as
an Arial replacement.
On 06/11/2012 08:46 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Is there a table of fonts giving groups? Perhaps more relevantly for most people might a table showing equivalents of the 4 or so most commonly used fonts; Arial, Times New Roman, Comic Sans and Verdana.
Regards from
Tom :)
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From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P<[email protected]>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] what is you favorite Unicode font to use within LO?
To: "LibreO - Users Global"<[email protected]>
Date: Monday, 11 June, 2012, 0:54
I was wondering this when I was looking at Unicode fonts for the thread about "old
style numbers":
What is the most popular Unicode fonts,
and the most favorite ones, used with LO these days.
/[by the way - Georgia - is another font that gives lowercase glyphs
for numbers, according to the way it looks while I type this email
in Thunderbird]/
I know that Arial Unicode [38,900 characters, 50,000 glyphs] is a good one, but
it is not free. What I would like to know is what is the best FREE, i.e.
freely downloadable and not paid or needing a MS package/OS to have access to
it.
Code2000 seems to have over 53,000 characters and over 63,000 glyphs, and that seems to
be the one of the largest number of glyphs for a free one out there, so far as I have
seen. Actually, WenQuanYi Bitmap Song is the one with the largest number of glyphs -
154,997 glyphs and 41,295 characters according to the wiki page I am using as a
reference. It is a big Unicode fonts for Song (serif) Style for Chinese language
"printing". Hei - is for Sans type of Chinese.
But is that the best looking and overall Unicode font to be used in LibreOffice?
DejaVu is a nice looking font, but DejaVu Sans has only about 5,400 characters
and about 5,700 glyphs.
So I ask you, the users of LO, which is the best looking and best usable FREE
Unicode font you have used for LibreOffice?
To be honest, it would be nice to have a few of the best looking and freely distributed fonts added
to my NA-DVD, but it would be nice to have a font, or fonts, that would cover the most
"ground" for the most used languages by our users. I know only English, but there are a
lot of other languages out there. I count 107 languages in the "please select your
language" section of the download page[s]. So it would be nice to have a good looking set of
fonts, or one like Code2000 and/or WenQuanYi Bitmap Song, to give you the glyphs to deal with all
these different languages.
So, do you have any favorite FREE font that is a Unicode font? No, I am not
going to explain what a Unicode font is.
Then we get into the Free version of popular fonts.
Times Roman and Times New Roman [both proprietary fonts] have versions that are
free and not free - Nimbus Roman [from 1982] , FreeSerif [like Nimbus Roman
No9], Liberation Serif [came out with Red Hat in 2007], and others like Times
Ten, Times Eighteen, etc., etc., and it goes on and on. You should see the
list of fonts that are Helvetica/Arial san-serif 99.9% replacement font names.
But to keep this thread shorter, please list only the Unicode fonts. We can
get into a discussion about other fonts offline at some other time.
.
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