On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:06:57 +0100 Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2005 08:56, marvindickens at bellsouth.net wrote: > > Today, I was looking around the wiki for Scribus and noticed > > the message from Peter Linnell regarding the quality and > > correctness of free fonts and their usage in Scribus. After > > reading it, I wondered: > > > > Is there a list of free fonts that are known to behave well on > > screen and in print? If not, it seems to me that there should be and > > that it would make sense to have the list on the Scribus wiki. > > > > Of course, most people know about the bitstream and the MS core > > fonts and such. I was thinking that it would be nice to have a list > > of decent free fonts other than the obvious ones... > > Sounds like a perfectly good time to start a page on the wiki.. > > It would be worth producing a font table showing: > - Known good for professional printing (top quality font, prefer > these)- Known good for printing (eg. breaks a RIP but prints ok on a > bubblejet)- Known good for web/presentations (actually loads and > renders in Scribus and its PDFs ok.. but its a nasty font for > printing/RIPing)- Known bad (send to /dev/null) Please add: - Know good for international or non-Latin1 usage (Unicode, Latin-2, Cyrillic, Hebrew, etc. ) BTW, there already is an article on fonts in the FAQ series: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Where_can_I_get_good_fonts%3F and the Scribus site lists some good free fonts too: http://www.scribus.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=3 We could start with both to produce the font table mentioned above. cheers Maciej
