I took a quick look at the fonts, and I am impressed with the quality. If you want a pragmatic reason why these should become part of Fedora, here it is: on Windows, MS Office adds Arial Black and Narrow, so there's some choice of weights for titling and subheads. On Linux there wasn't one until Gustavo's work. I sent him more nitty-gritty comments off-list. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Gustavo Ferreira <grilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (sent off-list) > > On Jul 22, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Vasile Gaburici wrote: > >> I'll gladly do some testing. As for the packaging, given that it's a >> derivative of Liberation, perhaps someone from Redhat will step up and >> include them in the official package... >> >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Gustavo Ferreira <grilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> i have worked on a derivative version of liberation sans for a client (a >>> public university in brazil). i have made several changes to the design >>> of >>> the existing fonts (it is closer to univers and akzidenz grotesk), and >>> created new ultralight and extrabold weights as well as small caps, >>> proportional numbers and case-sensitive punctuation for the text fonts >>> (but >>> no greek or cyrillic). >>> >>> the university will be releasing their new visual identity soon, along >>> with >>> the fonts. i plan to release an extended version* of the family (under a >>> different name) in september/october through my foundry. >>> >>> * including condensed and extended fonts for use in newspapers and >>> magazines >>> >>> [the fonts were designed in the 'ivory tower' way, with mostly >>> proprietary >>> software (macosx, fontlab, superpolator).] >>> >>> i would be happy if these fonts could end up in linux distros. >>> >>> if anyone is interested in testing the fonts on linux and taking care of >>> the >>> packaging, please drop me a line. >>> >>> >>> regards, >>> - gustavo. >>> >>> >>> ps: the fonts are in opentype cff format. >>> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
