Linux Libertine

Linux Libertine

Posted Jun 21, 2012 0:18 UTC (Thu) by gdt (subscriber, #6284)
In reply to: Linux Libertine by n8willis
Parent article: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Most of everything is rubbish, it's just more apparent with fonts. Consider that there must be thousands of web servers written by students each year as they learn their craft, but no one would seriously use one in production. They're certainly not all collected together on websites with names like Free Web Servers.

Google Web Fonts were a real step forward, as they trawled through the dross and said "these fonts are good". Moreover since they are "web" fonts the quality of the font on a screen was important.

Linux users don't download software from the web, so why are they looking for fonts on the web? I'd suggest the reason is the complete lack of attention to fonts in distribution's package managers. They don't even do the simplest thing, such as displaying a sample of the font, let alone allowing searching for fonts by their properties.

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