I’m sooo looking forward to this :-) Currently GTK+ messes things up when you have Ubuntu Medium installed, the Bold weight dissappears from the font selector dialog, as well as other weird things I haven’t fully investigated yet.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > For the past few months, Canonical designers have been working on > recommendations to improve the way Ubuntu uses fonts. > > These recommendations cover things like the default font size, a > family of sizes for different purposes, use of bold and italics, > hinting of the Ubuntu font, spacing in controls, line length and > layout of common window types, and changes to default components in > Ubuntu. > > Implementing these recommendations would involve code in many > components, including GTK, the default themes, Unity, the file > manager, and other default applications. > > We will also provide guidelines for application developers on how to > use fonts to fit in with Ubuntu typographically. > > At UDS we would like to present a draft of these recommendations and > guidelines, and invite feedback both from Ubuntu developers and > application developers. > > - -- > mpt > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlB1KJEACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecq7/QCgxL3G85cICqANOI7p98109K/v > 1wYAnAshCqL5ECIhMmwm0ZRloX5SDSlW > =AR/0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
