2008/7/8 jmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Having seen the side by side comparison I think Lib Sans is a better choice -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iD8DBQFIc1O0u1DMS2EM1TsRAjUAAKCSvPVACYmThc+HYsjKEx+PRvtLpgCgqVFM RZ2vasr7KwXiUs4LLhpNhNM= =R8aB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
