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What's hilarious is that RedHat already commissioned Ascender to make freely-available metric-compatible fonts, resulting in the Liberation family: http://en.w
by thristian 16y ago
What's hilarious is that RedHat already commissioned Ascender to make freely-available metric-compatible fonts, resulting in the Liberation family:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
Given that Ascender is the official vendor for Microsoft's core fonts including the original Times, Arial and Courier, one wonders if they're utterly sick of those particular sets of metrics yet.
- pavlov 16y agoActually these new Chrome fonts (Tinos, Arimo and Cousine) are the Liberation fonts. Exact same design, but a larger glyph set.
- thristian 16y agoAh, I guess Google just didn't like the GPLv2 licence attached to the Liberation fonts, and paid for them to be re-licensed. That's a bit of a shame, I'd been looking forward to having a wider set of Free fonts but the Liberation family is not a thing anyone would choose to use if it weren't for the metrics-compatibility.
- jlees 16y agoNah, we didn't pay just to relicense/extend Liberation. This pickup of fonts is a snapshot of a work in progress.
- jlees 16y agoOnly temporarily. :)