[Bf-committers] Fonts

[Dalai Felinto]

Hello everyone.
It's nice to see so much enthusiasm on that topic. Please keep in mind that
it's important to pick a font that has an extense support/fallback for
unicode.
Ton mentioned the idea of bundle Blender with a few fonts. I'm afraid the
size of those fonts is too big. Unless we add them as a separate package

I compiled Blender here with the Droid
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=7479
<http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=7479>patch available here:
http://www.filedropper.com/showdownload.php/droidfont

Quoting my blender-design-font-specialist friend [1]: It may need some
adjustments (default size + hinting [2] ).
I have no idea how Blender handles fallbacks (when a char is available in
another ttf file). But I'm assuming it will be supported eventually (and
Droid does have the asian set in another ttf file).

Regards,
Dalai

[1] - http://www.blog.ohweb.com.ar/
[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting
[3] - Droid Fonts downloaded from:
http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender

www.dalaifelinto.com

2010/12/13 jonathan d p ferguson <jdpf.plus at gmail.com>

> hi.
>
> On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Harley Acheson wrote:
>
> >
> > There are actually quite a few very good fonts that have very
> > good multi-language support and have good licenses. My
> > current favorite is the "Droid" family of fonts, commissioned
> > by Google and released under the Apache license.
> >
> > Droid - http://www.droidfonts.com/
> > Ubuntu Font Family - http://font.ubuntu.com/
> > Linux Libertine - http://www.linuxlibertine.org
> > Bitstream Vera - http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
> >
>
> Indeed. The "Free World" now has many wonderful fonts to choose from:
>
> See [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] for places to find FOSS fonts.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_Unicode_typefaces
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
> [3] http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/
> [4] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL_fonts
> [5] http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
> [6] http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/
> [7] http://www.stixfonts.org/
> [8] http://www.scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html
> [9] http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/
> [10] http://www.scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html
>
> have a day.yad
> jdpf
>
>
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