Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Little problem with the Vegur font

Hi Astron,

thanks for the proposal. Although Vegur has some glitches, we currently
try to stick with the font - if possible. Maybe this helps a bit:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#Fonts

Cheers,
Christoph

Am Sonntag, den 24.04.2011, 22:22 +0200 schrieb Astron:
> Hi,
> I don't know if this a good solution, since the font is terribly
> non-free, but you can always just use the Myriad Pro font (included
> with every copy of Adobe Reader -- try searching the installation
> directory[1]) of which Vegur seems to be a copy.
> If you want a free font, I'd also recommend FreeSans (a nice copy of
> Helvetica) or maybe Liberation Sans [2] (which LibreOffice people seem
> to use often for other text).
>
> Astron.
>
> [1] should be under /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
> > Le 2011-04-24 13:40, RGB ES a écrit :
> > > 2011/4/24 RGB ES<rgb.mldc@gmail.com>:
> > > > SIL have a couple of them:
> > > >
> > > > http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=FontDownloads
> > > > I'll test them soon.
> > >
> > > It seems that "couple" was the right statement: they have exactly two,
> > > one of them only as "regular".
> > > Sophia Nubian have all the simple diacritics on place and looks quite well
> > > http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?&item_id=SophiaNubian
> > > I think the most complete sans serif font are DejaVu Sans
> > > http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page
> > > and FreeSans
> > > http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
> > > but... well, they are not my favourite fonts.
> > > Cheers
> > > Ricardo
> >
> > I know that there had been a discussion somewhat about this previously on
> > this list.[1] The missing characters was a known problem with the Vegur
> > font. I think there was also talk of an eventual font replacement. Maybe we
> > have gotten to that point and there is now a need to adopt a more
> > appropriate and usable font.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > [1]
> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.design/365
> >
> >
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