Robitaille 2.0

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• 1. David Edmundson  |  May 12, 2007 at 8:08 am

  …but where’s Liberation Comic Sans?

• 2. Denis  |  May 12, 2007 at 10:33 am

  Pascal de Bruijn made a deb package for ubuntu:
  http://blog.pcode.nl/2007/05/11/redhats-gift/

• 3. Weeber  |  May 12, 2007 at 12:59 pm

  #1 Exactly, that’s the better font of MS.

  I prefer RH to work in a different system to draw the fonts on the screen. The look of the fonts -not the fonts, the way in how the X servers draw them- in GNU/Linux is far worse than Windows and MacOS.

• 4. Ralesk  |  May 12, 2007 at 3:34 pm

  #0: And I found that in Serif, the letter Ű had a ridiculous glitch in only the Regular face, and double acutes usually looked fairly drunk to me — not to mention the complete lack of any difference between l and I in the sans serif font (while J has a serif of sorts anyway)

  #3: yeah, it’s been said fairly often — if I turn off hinting completely, I get fairly decent results though, if somewhat blurry. My problem with the “high” hinting setting is that fonts like Verdana end up with a near-invisible x character at sensible sizes, regardless of whether the patented modes are enabled in my freetype or not.

• 5. mpt  |  May 12, 2007 at 5:20 pm

  Liberation Serif is nice enough, if a bit chunky, but it’s let down by its “w”, “W”, and “4″. The “w”s have short central peaks to match the narrowness of Times New Roman (where the “w”s have crossed central strokes), but there are less ugly ways of solving that problem while staying in style. The “4″, on the other hand, suffers through not staying in style (its vertical stroke should have a serif, as it does in Palatino and Melior). There’s something slightly unbalanced with the “D” too, though I can’t tell exactly what.

  But Liberation Serif seems better than Bitstream Vera Serif overall, both in character coverage, and because (unlike Vera Serif or Gentium) it actually has an italic. Woohoo!

  Liberation Sans is a Helvetica substitute, right down to the weird-ass “a” … but then it goes and has a serifed “1″. Ewww. Red Hat says it’s “a substitute for … Bitstream Vera Sans”. No, don’t do that, except in documents where you were using Vera Sans as a Helvetica substitute to begin with.

  Liberation Mono: I can’t imagine ever using this. Bitstream Vera Mono already exactly matches the width of Courier, and looks much less ugly.

• 6. Sykil  |  May 12, 2007 at 5:46 pm

  They’re alright fonts. Liberation Serif is tons better than that retarded Bitstream Vera Serif. I hate that font. The other two are okay, but both Monos have horrible fs.

• 7. Top Posts « WordPre&hellip  |  May 13, 2007 at 12:03 am

  [...] Liberation Fonts Red Hat released the other day the Liberation Fonts. To use them in Ubuntu you have to download the tar.gz file then […] [...]

• 8. Pascal  |  May 13, 2007 at 1:16 pm

  Hi,

  Don’t get RedHat wrong, these aren’t meant as interface fonts. These are to be used to render webpages and .doc documents properly which requires Arial, Times New Roman, Courier.

  These fonts are for practicality and compatibility, not beauty.

  I have a Ubuntu package available here:
  http://blog.pcode.nl/2007/05/11/redhats-gift/

• 9. Adam Messinger  |  May 13, 2007 at 11:16 pm

  I think mpt and Pascal hit the nail on the head. Bitstream’s Vera fonts offered substitutes for Georgia, Verdana, and Andale Mono; the Liberation fonts stand in for Times New Roman and Helvetica / Arial. None of them are gorgeous, but they offer some much-needed compatibility.

  As a Web designer, I’m always on the lookout for Linux fonts that can stand in for Win/Mac “standards” without messing up a layout. Thanks for giving me a look at these.

• 10. Fabian Rodriguez  |  July 12, 2007 at 3:14 am

  I hope the licencing issues are resolved so this can make it to Gutsy.

• 11. Derek Schnyder  |  August 2, 2007 at 5:52 pm

  I Want to know some font looks like ” Currier New” , someone could me send a link?

• 12. Luis Santos  |  January 28, 2008 at 12:46 pm

  The big problem is the lack of hinting on this first release. Red Hat promised the second, hinting-full version by the end of 2007. But I see no clues of where I can found it…

• 13. Johannes Eva  |  January 31, 2008 at 6:20 pm

  Hinting version to be found there:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427791

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