Luya's blog post tonight [1] reminded me of an ongoing issue we have - our secondary font, MgOpen Modata, doesn't have basic accent marks (I can't even write my own name in it.) Do we want to consider switching to a different font that does? There are more openly-licensed fonts than ever, far more than when we initially decided to go with MgOpen Modata. I found this font that has a similar rounded look (it's a wider and more widely-spaced font, but I think that's okay) and it seems to cover all the basic accents including acute, grave, umlat, circumflex, etc.: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Quicksand It's called Quicksand. The author has said he has released it 'license-free' and commercial use is permitted. We would need to get in touch with him and see if he would be amenable to releasing it under a recognized open font license before we could include it in Fedora, but he does seem responsive in the typophile forums [2]. What do you think? ~m [1] http://blog.thefinalzone.net/2010/06/mgopen-modata-andet-accents.html [2] http://www.typophile.com/node/50437#comment-346232 _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
