On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: 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. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote: Sorry to be clear - this was not suggesting removing Georgia, just swapping out the free font choice. Ah, sorry. Well my only question then is whether it's common enough to replace DejaVu serif then.

I don't think it's close to as widely deployed. The DejaVu fonts seem to be pretty standard in Linux installs as reliable many-glyph fonts. Debian's popcon seems to back that up, 137088 recorded installs of ttf-dejavu vs 9836 of fonts-linuxlibertine (though the numbers are a bit confusing, I think because of package moves, as there's one called fonts-dejavu which has 18722, but either way it's quite a bit more).