[IAEP] Sugar UI font

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Our first thought was to use one of the Australian schools handwriting
fonts [1]. We're currently experimenting with the Queensland Compact
Bold font [2], as it is more legible than the others. However, any
cursive font is less readable on a screen. Feedback so far has been
primarily negative.

What I think we need is a legible sans-serif font.

A lot of the freeware fonts out there are of low quality, incomplete
and not unicode compliant.


[1] http://www.schoolfonts.com.au/
[2] http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/996



On 25 January 2012 16:51, Ian Cunningham <ian.cunningham at nt.gov.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> NT DET uses Victorian Modern Cursive
>
> http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/english/handwriting.htm
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 3:13 PM
> To: iaep
> Subject: [IAEP] Sugar UI font
>
> I'm trying to find a font to use for the Sugar UI that has characters formed in the way they are taught in Australian schools (and probably in other countries too). The default Sans Serif font (and most fonts I've seen) have "a" and "9" characters with hooks. I'm after a font with a uses a "bowl a" and "9" with a vertical (not curved/hooked) stem.
>
> I've tried to explain this (with pictures) at
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1035
>
> Thanks,
> Sridhar
>
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Engineering Manager
> One Laptop per Child Australia
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