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Idea #15911: Use Liberation Sans as default font, not DejaVu Sans

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #1113: Use Red Hat Liberation Fonts (They Are Amazingly High Quality).
Written by Nxx the 23 Nov 08 at 20:53. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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In Ubuntu 8.10 there is a new great set of fonts - Liberation, looking something like Windows' Tahoma. So I suggest to use this font as default.
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Rabbid wrote on the 23 Nov 08 at 21:23
You just did a fatal mistake, mentioning Windows when didn´t need to, and because of that you will get some minuses.

Eldmannen wrote on the 24 Nov 08 at 00:05
Make a screenshot of before and after, so that people can compare.

neon wrote on the 24 Nov 08 at 02:32
-1 because Droid Sans is a way better choice.

Liberation for default Document font maybe though.

epictete wrote on the 24 Nov 08 at 15:15
Liberation Sans is not equivalent to Tahoma but to Arial (the key word here is metric-compatible; means same dimensions, same spaces) :

Liberation fonts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Liberation is the collective name of three TrueType font families: Liberation Sans, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono. These fonts are metric-compatible with Monotype Corporation's Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New respectively.

They are available under the GNU General Public License


They've been created by Red Hat.

Ssdg wrote on the 24 Nov 08 at 17:28
I think deja-vu easier to read. -1

lifestream wrote on the 25 Nov 08 at 02:57
Liberation fonts are way smaller than the others -- very difficult to read.

lifestream wrote on the 25 Nov 08 at 02:58
BTW Microsoft have some of the crappiest fonts. And no, I don't have Microsoft.

LuisAugusto wrote on the 10 Jan 09 at 07:51
@lifestream: So... you set them to be... 11 instead of 10...

It's the best font without doubt.

zevans wrote on the 17 Jul 09 at 16:27
I've found that FreeSans renders much better (with hinting and subpixel aliasing) that Liberation Sans does at sizes around 8pt. So - FreeSans better in some ways, think I'd vote against this one.

Bitstream Vera Sans is better than either IMHO, but not metric-compatible with Arial (it's "wider.")



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