On 06/04/2010 06:40 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > 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.) I was hit by the same issue too. > 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 For my language (Romanian) is not good enough, missing: ă, ș, ț. > 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]. Yeah, the license certainly must be cleared, maybe he will be interested to learn about openfontlibrary.org -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
