default fonts in Fedora

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Sep 18 18:01:15 UTC 2009


Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said:
>> google-droid-sans-fonts
>> google-droid-sans-mono-fonts
>> google-droid-serif-fonts
> 
> Is there a reason we make these the default instead of the more-or-less
> current default of dejavu?

Good question, especially considering that DejaVu has far better glyph 
coverage than google-droid. (The foundry which makes the Droid fonts sells a 
"Pro" version with higher glyph coverage, which we obviously cannot ship for 
both licensing and royalty reasons.) I think this is a step backwards.

        Kevin Kofler




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