Wow! Default Droid fonts for F14 would be so amazing! Hope we can get that sorted! :)
Fab
On 7 Jun 2010 18:29, "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
>
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