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Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalizationLiberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalizationPosted Jun 20, 2012 15:07 UTC (Wed) by fb (subscriber, #53265)In reply to: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization by juliank Parent article: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization
Really a pity that the license terms are such that they can hinder the adoption of a great font collection. Ubuntu Monospaced fonts replaced Inconsolata as my font of choice for programming.
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Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization Posted Jun 21, 2012 20:41 UTC (Thu) by przemoc (subscriber, #67594) [Link]
Have you tried terminus? I'm using it (for ages) in debian as console font and as fixed-width font in X11. Indispensable.
Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization Posted Jun 22, 2012 11:19 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
>Have you tried terminus? I'm using it (for ages) in debian as console font and as fixed-width font in X11. Indispensable.
The problem is Terminus is a pure bitmap font. http://www.fixedsysexcelsior.com/ is the *real* thing ;-)
Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization Posted Jun 26, 2012 14:31 UTC (Tue) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link] The problem is Terminus is a pure bitmap fontThat's a good thing. For printing, you want a vector font. But for terminal use, I still use bitmap fonts, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization Posted Jun 26, 2012 14:43 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
Pure bitmaps (like .fnt, .pcf) do not offer any advantage currently.
- There is no support to have them automatically scaled up. In contrast, you can run Fixedsys Excelsior TTF at 32px (i.e. twice its designed size) just by telling xterm/fontconfig to render it as such. - Besides vectorized glyphs, truetype fonts can also have embedded bitmaps. This is very dominant in the CJK glyph range where the (antialiased) scaledown is often too blurry. But Arial/Times also have bitmaps for Latin scripts. IOW, I'd love to have Terminus as TTF, just to be able to run it somehow at sizes larger than 32px.
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