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I think the W3C or somebody else should make Arial and Times New Roman standard and open source.

• trinix912 2y ago
  Doesn't Microsoft hold all rights to Arial because they didn't want to license Helvetica? I don't think W3C has much say in that.
  • albert_e 2y ago
    We could make say Helvetica Libre and Times Free Roman
    • amarshall 2y ago
      They already exist, but of course aren’t exactly the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FreeFont https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FreeFont
      • zokier 2y ago
        Liberation/Croscore fonts are more relevant here because they are designed to be drop-in replacements (metrically compatible) for MS fonts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts
        • amarshall 2y ago
          That’s actually what I was looking for, but I forgot the name and was on mobile—thanks!
      • f33d5173 2y ago
        The gpl makes those completely useless for such a purpose.
        • TingPing 2y ago
          It uses a variant of the GPL. You can include it in any usage as a font, just modifications of the actual font are normal GPL.