Re: [libreoffice-users] what is you favorite Unicode font to use within LO?

Times or Times New Roman --> Linux LibertineSerif - according to the 
Times wiki page.
The others, I will have to look up again to get what is listed as the 
best free versions as a replacement,; though DejaVu Sans works well as 
an Arial replacement.


On 06/11/2012 08:46 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Is there a table of fonts giving groups?  Perhaps more relevantly for most people might  a table showing equivalents of the 4 or so most commonly used fonts;  Arial, Times New Roman, Comic Sans and Verdana. 
> Regards from
> Tom :) 
>
>
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> From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P<webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] what is you favorite Unicode font to use within LO?
> To: "LibreO - Users Global"<users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Date: Monday, 11 June, 2012, 0:54
>
>
> I was wondering this when I was looking at Unicode fonts for the thread about "old style numbers":
>
>          What is the most popular Unicode fonts,
>          and the most favorite ones, used with LO these days.
>
>     /[by the way - Georgia - is another font that gives lowercase glyphs
>     for numbers, according to the way it looks while I type this email
>     in Thunderbird]/
>
> I know that Arial Unicode [38,900 characters, 50,000 glyphs] is a good one, but it is not free.  
> What I would like to know is what is the best FREE, i.e. freely downloadable and not paid or 
> needing a MS package/OS to have access to it.
>
> Code2000 seems to have over 53,000 characters and over 63,000 glyphs, and that seems to be the one of the 
> largest number of glyphs for a free one out there, so far as I have seen.  Actually, WenQuanYi Bitmap Song is 
> the one with the largest number of glyphs -  154,997 glyphs and 41,295 characters according to the wiki page 
> I am using as a reference.  It is a big Unicode fonts for Song (serif) Style for Chinese language 
> "printing".  Hei - is for Sans type of Chinese.
>
> But is that the best looking and overall Unicode font to be used in LibreOffice?
>
> DejaVu is a nice looking font, but DejaVu Sans has only about 5,400 characters and about 5,700 
> glyphs.
>
> So I ask you, the users of LO, which is the best looking and best usable FREE Unicode font you have 
> used for LibreOffice?
>
> To be honest, it would be nice to have a few of the best looking and freely distributed fonts added to my NA-DVD, but 
> it would be nice to have a font, or fonts, that would cover the most "ground" for the most used languages by 
> our users.  I know only English, but there are a lot of other languages out there.  I count 107 languages in the 
> "please select your language" section of the download page[s].  So it would be nice to have a good looking 
> set of fonts, or one like Code2000 and/or WenQuanYi Bitmap Song, to give you the glyphs to deal with all these 
> different languages.
>
> So, do you have any favorite FREE font that is a Unicode font?   No, I am not going to explain what 
> a Unicode font is.
>
> Then we get into the Free version of popular fonts.
>
> Times Roman and Times New Roman [both proprietary fonts] have versions that are free and not free - 
> Nimbus Roman [from 1982] , FreeSerif [like Nimbus Roman No9], Liberation Serif [came out with Red 
> Hat in 2007], and others like Times Ten, Times Eighteen, etc., etc., and it goes on and on.  You 
> should see the list of fonts that are Helvetica/Arial san-serif 99.9% replacement font names.
>
> But to keep this thread shorter, please list only the Unicode fonts.  We can get into a discussion 
> about other fonts offline at some other time.
> .
>
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