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I understand that "why?" will probably be responded with "why not?" but I'm going to ask it anyway. What benefit does bringing in more fonts do? What is the adv
by sukuriant 16y ago
I understand that "why?" will probably be responded with "why not?" but I'm going to ask it anyway. What benefit does bringing in more fonts do? What is the advantage of using these fonts over the current free/open fonts, like Nimbus, Arial, Courier New, etc?
- dchest 16y agoArial and Courier New are proprietary fonts. Arimo, Tinos, and Cousine use SIL Open Font License. Not sure why not other open fonts, but hey, we now have three more, how's this not a good thing? (Designed by Steve Matesson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Matteson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Matteson)
- sukuriant 16y agoAh, I see. I was going off memory that Arial existed in Open Office. After double-checking my sources (OpenOffice.org 3.2 running on Ubuntu 10.04.1) I see that I was incorrect in that. Nevermind, then.
- blasdel 16y agoUbuntu doesn't ship it by default because of FOSS-wankery in the style of debian-legal — the Microsoft Core Fonts are perfectly free to redistribute in their original compressed form. apt-get install msttcorefonts