[Hamara-devel] Fonts packaged with Hamara

[Sam Sayer]

I am wondering if we can include some more fonts in forthcoming Hamara releases. I do notice quite a difference in what the OS chooses as a replacement for common fonts such as Arial - it is replaced by a serif font - a big typography faux pas! (to be honest it’s mainly font geeks like me who get bothered!).

This is more apparent when setting fall-back fonts for web / html email, and also sharing of Libre Offie documents between different OS - it has quite disastrous results at times.

After a bit of digging it looks like Arial, Tahoma etc (the traditional ‘web safe’ fonts):

(http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/83113/can-microsoft-fonts-be-bought-and-included-in-the-linux-core <http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/83113/can-microsoft-fonts-be-bought-and-included-in-the-linux-core>)

> A font like tahoma can be found in the wine fonts package. There's also a package called ttf-ms-fonts which includes some the fonts you mentioned and can be legally installed. See for example this information for arch linux <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MS_Fonts>.
> 
> Includes:
> 
> Andalé Mono
> Arial
> Arial Black
> Comic Sans
> Courier New
> Georgia
> Impact
> Lucida Sans
> Lucida Console
> Microsoft Sans Serif
> Times New Roman
> Trebuchet
> Verdana
> Webdings
> Wingdings

See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts>

So - that would be a good start. 

Another consideration is bundling some of the Google Fonts in, which mostly have an SIL Open Font License.
I have started to see a lot of people using Google Fonts in documents now.

Namely:

Lato
Cabin
Source Sans Pro
Source Code Pro
Open Sans
Droid Sans
Drois Serif
PT Sans
PT Serif
EB Garamond
Exo
Martel
Martel Sans
Merriweather
Merriweather Sans
Michroma
Quicksand
Raleway



	
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