Hi list, I will try to wrap an interesting discussion that has arisen today on IRC. We talked about a better default font for our e-book reader, Read activity, and the possibility to add a new feature to change that font (in the activity itself or as a system setting). Obviously not for landing in this cycle, we have a lot of pending things to do, but would be nice to keep trac on this if there is some consensus.
I'm cc'ing Guillermo Espertino, professional free software designer, and Dave Crossland, font consultor at Google Webfonts, who also participated. Please answer to all because they may not be in sugar-devel mailing list. So, the current default is DejaVu LGC Serif. HoboPrimate suggested Century Schoolbook L as a better font. Guillermo said to me that Gentium Book would be the ideal. But Gonzalo, current Read maintainer, said that he has intentions to move to Sans. Now I understand that Serif fonts are being used in books more because of historical reasons, and that we should think what would be better for children. He also pointed that teachers ask for a hand-writting font, and that there are special fonts designed for dyslexic people. Finally, Dave pointed us to http://kidstype.org and the Fabula typeface. Looks interesting indeed. -- .. manuq .. _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
