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[John Simpson]

On 2008-02-17, at 1927, tom foster wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:02:06 -0500
> "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> The Red Hat Liberation fonts are what I've been trying to  
>> proliferate,
>> and heavily.  Getting users to stick with Sans (Arial/Helvetica),
>> Serif (Times) and Mono (Courier) is a good, first step.  And having
>> them just use the Liberation fonts is nice.
>>
>
> The Liberation fonts must look a whole lot better on your system than
> they do on mine.  Liberation mono is especially ugly.  Really bad.  If
> that was all I had available, I'd give away my computer before I
> subjected myself to its foul appearance.

the first version, released back in may or june, did look pretty bad-  
especially the mono font. and worse than looking bad, it had my  
biggest pet peeve with fixed-width fonts: no visual differentiation  
between a capital "O" and a numeral "zero".

the second version, with the updated metric information, looks REALLY  
nice... and they've added a dot to the middle of the zero, which is a  
little different than the slash i'm used to seeing with most fonts,  
but it's not the end of the world. in fact, to me the glyph looks  
almost the same as the zero from the fonts which were on the IBM  
terminals i normally see used with the AS/400 systems.

i just set up a mirror on my server, since bryan's link led you  
through three or four different pages before you can read about, and  
download, the files themselves.

http://www.jms1.net/liberation-fonts/

i've also started using them as my day-to-day "work fonts" on the  
laptop. in fact i'm typing this message using liberation mono, and i  
have to say it's nice... even on a mac.

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| John M. Simpson  --  KG4ZOW  --  Programmer At Large |
| http://www.jms1.net/                 <jms1 at jms1.net> |
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