Comments on: Red Hat releases Liberation fonts

By: Rui Gouveia » Blog Archive » Fontes? Só há estas…

Rui Gouveia » Blog Archive » Fontes? Só há estas… — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:17:51 +0000

[...] Não podia permitir que a minha amiga ficasse prejudicada por este motivo. Então encontrei este post, dum utilizador que compara as fontes Liberation da Red Hat com as sua equivalentes métrico [...]

By: codeman38

codeman38 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:03:00 +0000

Red Hat’s site has been updated with the latest version of the Liberation fonts, which includes full hinting and a distinguishable zero in Liberation Mono. It’s now become my default coding font.

By: luis fernandes

luis fernandes — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:58:47 +0000

The first check that I perform when choosing a monospaced font
for programming is whether I can differentiate between a 1 (one) and
an l (lower-case L), and between a 0 (zero) and an O (upper-case O).

The monospaced Liberation font fails these tests.
The font may look nice, but it’s useless for programmers.

During my days as a code-monkey I used a bitmapped Lucida Sans Typewriter
for programming and have recently switched to Bitstream Vera Sans
TTF once Emacs on OS X supported AA fonts.

By: Droid font family courtesy of Google & Ascender » DamienG

Droid font family courtesy of Google & Ascender » DamienG — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:07:01 +0000

[...] I have already covered Droid Sans Mono with an eye for using it for programming but thought it would be worth showing the other members of the family although I haven’t drawn direct comparisons with the Mac and Windows supplied fonts as I did with Red Hat’s Liberation fonts. [...]

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:09:43 +0000

Ah I assume you mean the blog look and feel.

It's a standard termplate that comes with my blogging software.

I am working on a look of my own.

[)amien

By: foobar

foobar — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:37:42 +0000

Damian,

Your being a typeface cognoscente, why do you use Arial, the ugliest font of the all below 17px, as well as, the least legible? Furthermore, why did you pick the bizarre color "6a604f", causing severe eyestrain in lowly mortals due to extremely low contrast?

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Sun, 20 May 2007 01:16:19 +0000

Courier New is a pretty ugly font – check out some of the other posts on my blog about other replacements for programming (Consolas, Inconsolata, Monaco, Envy Code R)…

[)amien

By: Stu

Stu — Sat, 19 May 2007 02:46:57 +0000

ugh! the liberation mono is certainly no replacement for courier new imo.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:01:35 +0000

That explains it ;)

I'm no font connoisseur (hence why I've stuck with Courier New when coding for years and never even noticed) but I have been frustrated by the lack of freely usable standard font replacements - when distributing OGRE (which uses some TTFs) we had to hunt around for decent standard-looking fonts we could distribute because the MS free fonts license wouldn't let us. So this is a good thing.

My only strong opinion on fonts generally is that Comic Sans really irritates me. A certain personnel department insisted on using it and it just looks ridiculously unprofessional and 'My First Website'y.

I know serif fonts are out of fashion now but in print (rather than the web), they are much better IMO. There's a reason Times has been around so long..

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:05:50 +0000

Because they are beautiful and important with a rich and interesting history.

My second career choice was typographer but I didn't have the skills or resources to do it - much like my first career choice of Pro BMXer.

Software development was third choice and far more realistic.

[)amien