On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Ryan is suggesting we use the free font Linux
Libertine instead of
Georgia/DejaVu as our free font offering on the basis that we use this font
in the Wikipedia logo.
This sounds good.
What think you designers?
I suggested DejaVu serif as the free alternative to list because it seems
to be widely installed by default on Ubuntu, and probably other Linux
operating systems. Is the same the case with Linux Libertine?
As far as removing Georgia... Theoretically this sounds nice, and
personally I quite like Linux Libertine, but I am opposed until we figure
out what most Windows and OSX machines will compute "Linux Libertine,
serif" to. Will it still display Georgia, or will it display something
crappier like Times?
If it ends up that on OSX and Windows "Linux Libertine, serif" computes to
the same as "Georgia, serif" is, I'm not really sure what the point is
beyond changing the typography for the tiny number of our users on desktop
FOSS operating systems that have both Libertine and a different default
serif.
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