Re: [libreoffice-design] New default fonts

El 13-02-2016 16:18, Heiko Tietze escribió:

> On Saturday, 13 February 2016 16:12:44 CET Yousuf 'Jay' Philips wrote:
>
> > Hi All, During this week's design meeting, the discussion about 
> > changing the default font in Impress to Source Sans Pro (tdf#97577) 
> > was discussed further and i felt that changing the default font in 
> > only one app isnt good when we are trying to bring more and more 
> > consistency between apps and suggested we change the default in all 
> > the apps.
>
> If we change the default font then in all apps, yes. And Source Pro is 
> really
> nice, without prefering it over the other cadidates.
> However I'm in the interoperability camp. Changing font that 
> potentially
> affects existing documents and leads to inconsitencies in competing 
> products
> is not user friedly. Unless we ask for confirmation to update the font. 
> I have
> a dialog in mind that tells the user what's new and asks for 
> confirmation to
> updated options (we had the same issue for the menu configuration that 
> couldn't
> be overridden when individualized).

Heiko's comment makes sense.

Interoperability is an important pillar which should be maintained, 
especially for those users who do not make major changes to create/edit 
a document. For a more advanced user is provided the ability to change 
the font or install new to the system.

Based on my experience as a user I propose the following (always works):

- For libreOffice Writer/Calc --> Google croscore fonts
  Caladea and Carlito they have the same metric as the default font used 
in Microsoft Office.

- For libreOffice Impress/Draw --> DejaVu font family
  DejaVu fonts are installed by default on most OS also is a font with 
very good display on monitors. Wide range in Unicode support and several 
useful styles, for example to create a presentation. If not the case, 
Carlito font could do the job.

note: I think it should be consistency between the default font in LO 
and the font used in the default templates in LibreOffice.

Cheers

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