On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 10:43:17PM +0200, Kris Thomsen wrote: > 2010/6/5 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 18:59 -0400, Ian Weller wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 05:12:53PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > >> > We don't actually have an official body text font (I tend to use > >> > Liberation Sans when laying out body text), maybe we should pick a > >> > specific one and add it to our brand guidelines. > >> > >> The whole MgOpen not having accents thing has bugged me since my > >> development of fedora-business-cards, where I used Máirín's FAS > >> information as a test to see if my code worked with Unicode. > >> > >> But anyway. You'll never guess what I have in the brand guidelines draft > >> I'm working on. :) > >> > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ianweller/Brand_guidelines_(draft)#Fonts > >> > >> We could use either Liberation or Droid. It matters not to me. > > > > I would word it more strongly than that, I would say it's meant to be a > > titling font, for secondary wordmarks, and for accents/callout, and body > > text should be $whatever-good-body-font-we-pick. > > > > I really like Droid Sans... > > > I agree, Droid-fonts are really great :) And a Modata-like font for headlines :) +1 for that here, too -- find a Modata-like font with more accent/diacritical coverage(*) for headlines, and use Droid Sans for body text. I think it's worth pointing out that the Fedora Desktop SIG has been discussing moving Fedora 14 to default to Droid Sans, assuming some remaining issues are worked out. * * * (*) That's what's meant by glyphs, right? Character coverage? -- 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
