Re: [libreoffice-users] Liberation fonts vs Google croscore fonst

I'm not informed on that specifically, but usually forks are made for
license issues, so that may be the "problem".

Try comparing Google and Liberation Fonts licenses if you wish, and if
you'll do please report to us as well.

I'd appreciate, at least  ;)

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Gabriele Ponzo

2015-10-05 22:40 GMT+02:00 Bastián Díaz <diaz.bastian@openmailbox.org>:

> Hi, this must be an old topic but I wonder why LibreOffice does not use
> the full set of google croscore fonts.
>
> Currently, LibreOffice includes Caladea and Carlito replacing Cambria and
> Calibri fonts. However, LibreOffice does not include the fonts Arimo, Tinos
> and Cousine (replacing Arial, Times New Roman and Courier), from my point
> of view and testing, google fonts do a better job than the liberation
> fonts: better visualization, metric gauge more compatible with microsoft
> fonts, increased support glyph, etc.
>
> From what I've read, since version 2.0 of Liberation Fons is a fork of
> google croscore fonts ... but in practice do not appear.
>
> Is there any reason to prefer Liberation fonts over google croscore fonts?
>
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