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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Fonts (Re: KDE Control Center)
From:       Lars Knoll <lars () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-02-22 11:33:16
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On Wednesday 21 February 2001 19:06, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 February 2001 12:15, Matthias Elter wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:18:45PM +0100, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > > Including the font with KDE would from our point of view be the best by
> > > far (like MS ships Verdana for a while with recent versions now that
> > > they use it theirselves) but that also means we have to play with X11
> > > fonts and the like. Worse, I suspect the font to be a TrueType font and
> > > afaik only XFree supports that at the moment.
> > > I don't think we want to go that way, although it's obviously the best
> > > for i18n.
> >
> > Do you realize that the font might not be free? And I mean free as in
> > free beer. Actually most TruType fonts out there are not.
>
> I was sent this link, about this issue :
> http://www.fontage.com
>
> That site lists a LOT of fonts, of all sorts (commercial ones, shareware
> ones, free ones). Maybe shipping a few free ones might not be a bad idea.

The main problem is to get _good_ free fonts. There are a few for latin1, but 
for non latin1, the choice of good free fonts gets very limited (or is even 
zero). 90% of the free true type fonts out there are really crappy.

Lars

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