Re: [Trisquel-users] Why arent the Liberation fonts in the default install?

[tegskywalker]

I say this because the default FreeFonts are still considered a work in  
progress and aren't at the quality of the Liberation ones. Steve White and I  
have been conversing back and forth since this past December and I've been  
testing his improvements and giving suggestions on how to improve them.

I do admit that character wise, the FreeSerif is a lot closer to Times New  
Roman than Liberation Serif. The issue is that the spacing is a little off  
vertically and horizontally and not even the OTF and TTF line up metrically  
to Times New Roman or Liberation Serif. If they fix those issues, then it  
would be a true drop-in replacement for the MS fonts. Of course there is the  
whole politics aspect of it like LibreOffice and OpenOffice not rendering it  
properly and neither camp is taking suggestions to improve it.