On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Matthew Flaschen
I set up
http://jsfiddle.net/UPBUH/ as a quick testing ground.
Nice, I tweaked it to make
http://jsfiddle.net/UPBUH/7/<http://jsfiddle.net/UPBUH/6/>6/>, you can
see what your browser + O.S. picks for each font name in the font
stack.
When I check the Fonts tab of Firefox's Web Console (not Firebug), it
shows "Nimbus Sans L Bold system". Used as:
"Nimbus Sans L".
I get the same.
FWIW Chromium does something different for me, it's matching Helvetica but
not using Nimbus Sans L. something more like Liberation Sans.
we're saying we want to use that free font (because it's a free, and fits
our intended design well).
If it's as good or better than Helvetica Neue, I think everyone agrees the
free font should come first. Yo, designers...? I think Quim goes further to
argue our sans-serif font list should be
"Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif
I have no idea what that font stack does on Windows/Mac/iOS/Android. It's
the last thing in
http://jsfiddle.net/UPBUH/7/ , can people report back?
Kaldari:
"Nimbus Sans L" is the files n019003l.{afm,pfb,pfm} in
http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/all/gsfonts/download , the command to
extract one file is
$ dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/gsfonts_blahblah.deb | tar xOf -
./usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb > /tmp/NimbusSansL.pfb
and I sent the files to you on a 3 1/2" floppy ☺
Cheers,
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=S Page Features engineer