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Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Posted Jun 19, 2012 22:16 UTC (Tue) by rfontana (subscriber, #52677)
Parent article: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Sorry, I have one more criticism of this article. It says in its opening sentence:

> Fedora is debating dropping the storied Liberation font family from its
> distribution in favor of a fork.

But Croscore is not a "fork" of the existing Liberation Fonts.

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Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Posted Jun 20, 2012 9:27 UTC (Wed) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

Maybe the author meant 'drop it or fork it' about Liberation? That's how I understand it, especially as Croscore comes later in the article.

Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Posted Jun 20, 2012 10:14 UTC (Wed) by randomguy3 (subscriber, #71063) [Link]

I think it was meant in the sense of

> not only are they also the work of Steve Matteson, the
> same designer who created Liberation, but they are in
> fact a more recent version of the exact same designs

Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Posted Jun 20, 2012 16:41 UTC (Wed) by rfontana (subscriber, #52677) [Link]

Yes, I see Liberation and Croscore as they exist today as branches of the same Steve Matteson tree.

Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Posted Jun 28, 2012 10:32 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

s/a fork/another fork/ might be the proper fix.