<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">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!).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After a bit of digging it looks like Arial, Tahoma etc (the traditional ‘web safe’ fonts):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(<a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/83113/can-microsoft-fonts-be-bought-and-included-in-the-linux-core" class="">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/83113/can-microsoft-fonts-be-bought-and-included-in-the-linux-core</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; clear: both; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">A font like tahoma can be found in the <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">wine fonts</code> package. There's also a package called <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">ttf-ms-fonts</code> which includes some the fonts you mentioned and can be legally installed. See for example <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MS_Fonts" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(16, 120, 165);" class="">this information for arch linux</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; clear: both; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Includes:</p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Andalé Mono</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Arial</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Arial Black</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Comic Sans</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Courier New</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Georgia</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Impact</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Lucida Sans</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Lucida Console</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Microsoft Sans Serif</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Times New Roman</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Trebuchet</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Verdana</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Webdings</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Wingdings</li></ul></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>See also: <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts" class="">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So - that would be a good start. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another consideration is bundling some of the Google Fonts in, which mostly have an SIL Open Font License.</div><div class="">I have started to see a lot of people using Google Fonts in documents now.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Namely:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lato</div><div class="">Cabin</div><div class="">Source Sans Pro</div><div class="">Source Code Pro</div><div class="">Open Sans</div><div class="">Droid Sans</div><div class="">Drois Serif</div><div class="">PT Sans</div><div class="">PT Serif</div><div class="">EB Garamond</div><div class="">Exo</div><div class="">Martel</div><div class="">Martel Sans</div><div class="">Merriweather</div><div class="">Merriweather Sans</div><div class="">Michroma</div><div class="">Quicksand</div><div class="">Raleway</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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