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Definitely - it is so strange that there are so many fonts installed which seem to be identical! Let's get some quality fonts on Ubuntu and get rid of the cruft.
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As a graphic designer I do not want it to be like windows. But still 1+.
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leviss
wrote on the 31 May 08 at 10:11
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Yeah limit it to just the good fonts! +1
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Don't make the wapanese cry.
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janc
wrote on the 31 May 08 at 13:15
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Windows doesn't come with Unicode fonts for every script. In fact, AFAIK Microsoft distributes only one font that comes close to that goal, and typographically this font is quite horrific.
The reason why you see so many fonts that look the same for you is that fontconfig makes sure you get replacement characters from other fonts when you look at a font that doesn't have glyphs for your script.
And the reason why there are so many fonts is that there are so many languages & scripts in the world, and Ubuntu tries not to discriminate between them (at least not too much...).
One possible solution for this has been outlined on the Ubuntu wiki in a blueprint/proposal for quite some time, but it involves some (coordinated) work and changes to be done by several upstream projects. The idea is to have all fonts installed (so that they are available for applications that need to show text in all known scripts), but only part of them should be shown in the font selection dialogs by default, but allowing people to select other "font groups" if they need them. Of course this would at the same time also solve an issue for many graphic designers... ;-)
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El_Tate
wrote on the 5 Jun 08 at 19:15
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Well, there are some fonts that has to be included by default. Like Red Hat's Liberation, the FreeFonts, and, of course, the DejaVu. Maybe the Nimbus. And some alternatives for Tahoma and Lucida Grande would be nice.
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Yes, like El_Tate said. Or, if it's not possible, make it like on Mac - font categories as linked lists
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In regards to the "fontdialog" link above and to the ideas of categorization of fonts: yes! Yes! I download lots of fonts and I like having them around, but it would mean everything to me if I could keep them straight with categories or tags, even simple ones like "serif," "sans-serif," "mono," or "decorative."
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Yes, what am I supposed to do with all these fonts? Many look "the same" and some of them are useless to me because they have no umlauts (ä ü ö ß).
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Blueprint font-management:
