Really? I like them. I really don't see what Futura, Luz, or other
fonts have that these don't.

Is there a free font you particularly like that you would suggest?

Daniel.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Benjamin Schuster-Boeckler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm, I must admit that from my point of view, none of them really get 
> anywhere close to the previous quality. They just don't work, somehow.
>
> Ben
>
> On 21 Jul 2010, at 10:35, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have selected three fonts which are, open source, sans-serif, and
>> look nice. I put them up on this page:
>>
>> http://pdl.perl.org/images/fonts.png
>>
>> The first column shows a modified font resulting from me moving the
>> letters around, inspired by earlier experiments from Benjamin.
>>
>> There are more free sans fonts. A few were a bit too fancy, but most
>> were just too similar to FreeSans to offer anything new (MgOpen
>> Moderna, Liberation, DejaVu, Bitstream Vera). I chose FreeSans because
>> it is the most compact and the > lines up perfectly with the letters.
>>
>> I discarded LuzSans due to uncertainty about the license, and Tuffy
>> was beautiful but I had some issues I could not fix.
>>
>> Lastly, I did not try to emulate Futura. Futura is nice, but it is not
>> the only nice font. I tried to select *simple* fonts that nonetheless
>> look nice.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel.
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