[Bf-committers] Fonts

Diego B bdiego at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 22:22:14 CET 2010


Hi,

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

I can take a look at that :)

>
> 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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