On 7/7/08, George Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:16:54 +0200 > Jelle de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > jmak wrote: > > > Hi, > > > In order to produce a real high quality desktop environment every > > > little detail counts, including fonts. There is an absolutely high > > > quality font family that has been created for Goggle, called Droid. > > > Ubuntu has been negotiating with Goggle to completely open-source > > > them. If they succeed, the font family will be used on Ubuntu as > > > default system fonts. They are mac quality fonts and look great on > > > xubuntu too. If the negotiations succeed, we should also use them as > > > default system fonts. Download and try them out. From here: > > > > > > > http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender > > > > > > jmak > > > > > > > Just curious but what's wrong with the liberation-fonts? > > > > Why don't we use them? > > > > https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ > > > > http://damieng.com/blog/2007/05/17/red-hat-releases-liberation-fonts > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Jelle > > > > There's been some discussion on the art mailing list and as a user > (from the screen shots) I really can't see that either is hugely better > than the other. >
Look at the differences, in terms of resolution, clarity and screen space economy. http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/3581/fontsyh5.png jmak -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
