On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:40:27PM -0400, 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.) > > 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 Speaking only for my tastes, this font seems more excentric than Modata. The wider spacing could have a negative impact on content where we can effectively use Modata now -- having to use a lot more space for the same amount of information. I'm not saying we want a tightly condensed font, but Quicksand seems skewed too far in the other direction. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
