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Ubuntu Font By Daltoon Maag Is Out

47 points by eps 16y ago

zeemonkee 16y ago
Package for download: http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ttf-ubuntu-font-family http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ttf-ubuntu-font-family
- StavrosK 16y ago
  I came here for this, thank you.
barnaby 16y ago
Totally Awesome!
rubinelli 16y ago
I'm studying Japanese now, and I wish it got the same love. One high quality sans-serif libre font would be enough. I guess most non-Latin character sets suffer as well.
- nagnatron 16y ago
  It's a work in progress. As far as I know they are planning to extend it to support more scripts. I am also very much looking forward to a monospace version.
  - nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
    Another vote for seeing a monospace version.
- naner 16y ago
  What are you using now? Bitsream Cyberbit? VLGothic? WenQuanYi Micro Hei?
dochtman 16y ago
Kind of weird that font.ubuntu.com doesn't just offer .ttf files or other easy downloads.
- pjscott 16y ago
  Apparently they're still polishing up the font, so the Ubuntu guys offer it as a package for easy upgrading. That's my guess at their reasoning, anyway.
  - nagnatron 16y ago
    That's correct. They even considered delaying a release like this because it's not 100% finished and they didn't want too many versions of the font in the wild.
- adambyrtek 16y ago
  Excerpt from the wiki: "Please do not try to download just the .deb or .tar.gz on its own; the test fonts change weekly (normally on a Monday) and having old copies of broken/superceded versions is producing incorrect bug reports. Even worse documents are ending up with the out-of-date fonts embedded in them."
burke 16y ago
Screenshot of the font used as body text on Wikipedia: http://imgur.com/912V0 http://imgur.com/912V0
- batasrki 16y ago
  I like it, nice and clean.
  - pjscott 16y ago
    I'm not sure how I feel about the lower-case f, but I love how the l, i, and j are all easily distinguished from one another, and the font looks generally pretty darn pleasant.
- zokier 16y ago
  In my layman opinion it looks bit too stylized for body text. But probably works much better in UI elements.
- elblanco 16y ago
  mmm....I find it hard to read as body text...the words all seem to run together.
duck 16y ago
What is the license for this font?
- burke 16y ago
  "UBUNTU FONT LICENSE Version 1.0": http://gist.github.com/601425 http://gist.github.com/601425
  - duck 16y ago
    Thank you! Was that listed somewhere on the linked font.ubuntu.com site?
    - burke 16y ago
      Not that I saw. It's in the .tar.gz available on the package linked by zeemonkee.
sp332 16y ago
I extracted the TTFs from the package, if you want to try them on other platforms: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B4NmQa1UbwBCOGMzN2U3ZjItOTIwYy00ZmYyLTg1NzItZGZkNzQzYjZlNGQ2&hl=en https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B4NmQa1UbwBCOGMzN2U3ZjItOTI...
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47 points by eps 16y ago

Package for download: http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ttf-ubuntu-font-family http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ttf-ubuntu-font-family

StavrosK 16y ago
I came here for this, thank you.

barnaby 16y ago

Totally Awesome!

rubinelli 16y ago

I'm studying Japanese now, and I wish it got the same love. One high quality sans-serif libre font would be enough. I guess most non-Latin character sets suffer as well.

nagnatron 16y ago
It's a work in progress. As far as I know they are planning to extend it to support more scripts. I am also very much looking forward to a monospace version.
- nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
  Another vote for seeing a monospace version.
naner 16y ago
What are you using now? Bitsream Cyberbit? VLGothic? WenQuanYi Micro Hei?

dochtman 16y ago

Kind of weird that font.ubuntu.com doesn't just offer .ttf files or other easy downloads.

pjscott 16y ago
Apparently they're still polishing up the font, so the Ubuntu guys offer it as a package for easy upgrading. That's my guess at their reasoning, anyway.
- nagnatron 16y ago
  That's correct. They even considered delaying a release like this because it's not 100% finished and they didn't want too many versions of the font in the wild.
adambyrtek 16y ago
Excerpt from the wiki: "Please do not try to download just the .deb or .tar.gz on its own; the test fonts change weekly (normally on a Monday) and having old copies of broken/superceded versions is producing incorrect bug reports. Even worse documents are ending up with the out-of-date fonts embedded in them."

burke 16y ago

Screenshot of the font used as body text on Wikipedia: http://imgur.com/912V0 http://imgur.com/912V0

batasrki 16y ago
I like it, nice and clean.
- pjscott 16y ago
  I'm not sure how I feel about the lower-case f, but I love how the l, i, and j are all easily distinguished from one another, and the font looks generally pretty darn pleasant.
zokier 16y ago
In my layman opinion it looks bit too stylized for body text. But probably works much better in UI elements.
elblanco 16y ago
mmm....I find it hard to read as body text...the words all seem to run together.

duck 16y ago

What is the license for this font?

burke 16y ago
"UBUNTU FONT LICENSE Version 1.0": http://gist.github.com/601425 http://gist.github.com/601425
- duck 16y ago
  Thank you! Was that listed somewhere on the linked font.ubuntu.com site?
  - burke 16y ago
    Not that I saw. It's in the .tar.gz available on the package linked by zeemonkee.

sp332 16y ago

I extracted the TTFs from the package, if you want to try them on other platforms: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B4NmQa1UbwBCOGMzN2U3ZjItOTIwYy00ZmYyLTg1NzItZGZkNzQzYjZlNGQ2&hl=en https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B4NmQa1UbwBCOGMzN2U3ZjItOTI...

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