hi.

On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Josh Sled wrote:

> jonathan d p ferguson <[email protected]> writes:
> |OK. I edited it. I notice that we're on a similar theme... with a few 
> |differences. I've taken the liberty to push the work up to GitHub. We'll see 
> |how well git works with Inkscape SVG files...
> 
> |See: http://github.com/jdpf/vaguevt.org
> 
> |You can read my comments on the file in the associated PDF in that 
> repository.
> 
> Those fonts are a little esoteric; it might be nice to have something a
> little more traditional and available.  


HAH!

The fonts I chose are no more esoteric than most FOSS. These are high quality 
open source typefaces.  A rarity indeed. These fonts are careful "clones" of 
high-visiblity fonts from a variety of foundries. The TeXGyre fonts have full 
character coverage for Unicode, and are not just 8bit fonts. 

Think Helvetica and Courier. That's what we're talking about. 

The TeXGyre fonts I selected are just implementations of those, under a variety 
of different names and somewhat mixed histories. They're not 100% identical, 
but they're really close--- and not in the "close" way that Arial (worst 
sans-serif font ever) bears similarity to Helvetica (most popular sans-serif 
font ever).

Funny chart. Thanks for sharing.

have a day.yad
jdpf

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