[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Revisiting Read Activity default font

[Eduardo H. Silva]

No dia 26 de Abril de 2012 23:35, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> escreveu:
> Hi list,
>
> I will try to wrap an interesting discussion that has arisen today on
> IRC.  We talked about a better default font for our e-book reader,
> Read activity, and the possibility to add a new feature to change that
> font (in the activity itself or as a system setting).  Obviously not
> for landing in this cycle, we have a lot of pending things to do, but
> would be nice to keep trac on this if there is some consensus.
>
> I'm cc'ing Guillermo Espertino, professional free software designer,
> and Dave Crossland, font consultor at Google Webfonts, who also
> participated.  Please answer to all because they may not be in
> sugar-devel mailing list.
>
> So, the current default is DejaVu LGC Serif.  HoboPrimate suggested
> Century Schoolbook L as a better font.  Guillermo said to me that
> Gentium Book would be the ideal.
>
> But Gonzalo, current Read maintainer, said that he has intentions to
> move to Sans.  Now I understand that Serif fonts are being used in
> books more because of historical reasons, and that we should think
> what would be better for children.  He also pointed that teachers ask
> for a hand-writting font, and that there are special fonts designed
> for dyslexic people.
>
> Finally, Dave pointed us to http://kidstype.org and the Fabula
> typeface.  Looks interesting indeed.
>
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I took some screenshots of Read reading and Epub document with 4 of
the 5 fonts mentioned above (on a normal laptop):

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Fonts_For_Reading

Eduardo