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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Thanks!


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:09 PM, gespertino at gmail.com
<gespertino at gmail.com>wrote:

> > I know the site say open source fonts, but can we distribute them?
>
> Yes, the SIL OFL license allows that.
> Dave can give you more reliable details, but as far as I could
> understand after reading the license, it's basically a free license
> with just one exception: If you create derivative fonts from a font
> covered by that license you can't use the same name.
> I guess it's pretty much the same than Firefox and its branding
> guidelines. The author reserves the name to ensure that anything
> published under that name comes from the project and meets certain
> quality level.
>
> Apart from that, they are free fonts you can use, distribute and modify.
>
> Regarding the monospaced font as default... big -1.
> It's best for code and ASCII art, but it's tiresome to read long texts
> with monospaced font. The fixed width also means that pages will
> contain a fixed number of characters, making the document longer (in
> pages) than a text composed in proportional fonts.
>
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