Sorry to be clear - this was not suggesting removing Georgia, just swapping out the free font choice.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> 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. > > > -- > Steven Walling, > Product Manager > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon
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