Depends how international you want it! Adobe Pro fonts have many glyphs, especially the newer fonts. Comparing the number of glyphs: Fedora fonts ~~~~~~~~~~~~ DejaVu Serif Book: 2885 DejaVu Sans Book: 5270 DejaVu Sans Mono Book: 3020 Liberation Serif Regular: 668 Liberation Sans Regular: 675 Liberation Mono Regular: 670 Linux Libertine Regular: 2388 Charis SIL Regular: 3289 Doulos SIL Regular: 3288 Gentium Regular: 1699 The URW fonts I got in OpenType have 300 or so glyphs. The type-1 Fedora ships, which have Cyrillic but broken Romanian, have around 500. Adobe Pro ~~~~~~~~~ Adobe Caslon Pro Regular: 801 Minion Pro Regular: 1668 Arno Pro Regular: 2846 Garamond Premier Pro Regular: 2735 Myriad Pro Regular: 846 Courier Std Medium: 374 [I don't have any Pro monospaced] MS XP + EU Expansion Font Update ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Arial Regular: 1680 Times New Roman Regular: 1680 Verdana Regular: 913 Microsoft Sans Serif Regular: 2259 Courier New Regular: 1318 (this actullay lacks Romanian glyphs, it wasn't updated) MS Vista (actually these are from PPT Viewer 2k7, I don't have Vista) ~~~~~~~~ Cambria Bold: 979 [note: fontmatrix cannot read ttc files, like the Cambria Regular + Math] Constantia Regular: 994 Calibri Regular: 1121 Corbel Regular: 987 Candara Regular: 966 Consolas Regular: 709 MS Office 2k3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Palatino Linotype Regular: 1328 Tahoma Regular: 2036 So, DejaVu Sans may win the number of glyphs contest, but I wouldn't print stuff in DejaVu. Linux Libertine is much better in that respect. Liberation is somewhere in between. What Linux really needs is a sans version of Libertine! If I were Redhat management I'd pay Philipp Poll or the SIL fokes instead of Ascender Corp! Btw, Charis SIL is okay for some jobs, but it is a slab serif. Btw, I have no need to write Chinese or Arabic, but there commercial fonts for those too! On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le Mar 22 juillet 2008 15:06, Michal Nowak a écrit : >> >> On 14:30 Tue 22 Jul , Vasile Gaburici wrote: >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici@xxxxxxxxx> >>> Subject: Re: [Fwd: the ivory tower and the bazaar] >>> >>> They say a picture is worth a thousand words. >>> [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gaburici/linux-fonts.png] >> >> I am sorry for my ignorance but what does the thousand-word-picture >> actually said? > > I guess it said that if you were willing to shell a lot of $$$, you > could buy proprietary font sets that let you write the same basic > latin text in lots of slightly different ways, while being unable to > use any language that needed more that the 26 basic latin letters. > > Of course not everyone has the same priorities. > > -- > Nicolas Mailhot > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-fonts-list mailing list > Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list > > _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
