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Calibri is Microsoft-encumbered, no? Shame they didn't use a free font like Liberation Sans.
by branon 4y ago
Calibri is Microsoft-encumbered, no? Shame they didn't use a free font like Liberation Sans.
- antihero 4y agoLiberation Sans would be so on brand for the USA too
- danuker 4y agoMot à mot translation: "Liberation Without" or "Liberation Lacking"
- tohnjitor 4y agoArguably this fits even better.
- BitwiseFool 4y agoYou know that feeling you get when something is just so perfect?
- jerf 4y agoFrisson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson
- diryawish 4y agoNot for the bureaucrats at the state department.
- abudabi123 4y agoThe Microsoft empire is bigger than several nation states. IBM research used to examine UX. The IBM top brass deciding to pay over $35B+ for a UNIX-like when they have an authentic UNIX of their very own which is going to a boneyard in India suggests that kind of UX research isn't front of mind and funded to decide which font is best.
- zitterbewegung 4y agoBuying Red Hat was just to acquire customers . Generally if you don’t really want the product the business / tech then you acquire patents , customers and people. For patents you can sue other competitors.
- mepian 4y agoWhat does AIX have to do with this? It wasn't exactly at the forefront of UX research even before Red Hat existed at all.
- vharuck 4y agoWhat you see as "Microsoft-encumbered," they may see as "default font in Outlook so just go with the font that'll get used anyway."
- input_sh 4y agoThey'd have to install that font to every machine, and Calibri is already there.
- supertrope 4y agoMicrosoft is a domestic company. That's probably a plus for vendor selection.
- hot_gril 4y agoEh, better to name the free fonts something that doesn't give an "I can't afford the name brand" vibe. Nothing about freedom even needs to be in the name. To most people, all fonts are already free cause they cost nothing.