On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Matthew Flaschen I set up http://jsfiddle.net/UPBUH/ as a quick testing ground.
Nice, I tweaked it to make http://jsfiddle.net/UPBUH/7/<http://jsfiddle.net/UPBUH/6/>, you can see what your browser + O.S. picks for each font name in the font stack. When I check the Fonts tab of Firefox's Web Console (not Firebug), it > shows "Nimbus Sans L Bold system". Used as: "Nimbus Sans L". > I get the same. FWIW Chromium does something different for me, it's matching Helvetica but not using Nimbus Sans L. something more like Liberation Sans. > > we're saying we want to use that free font (because it's a free, and fits > our intended design well). > If it's as good or better than Helvetica Neue, I think everyone agrees the free font should come first. Yo, designers...? I think Quim goes further to argue our sans-serif font list should be "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif I have no idea what that font stack does on Windows/Mac/iOS/Android. It's the last thing in http://jsfiddle.net/UPBUH/7/ , can people report back? Kaldari: "Nimbus Sans L" is the files n019003l.{afm,pfb,pfm} in http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/all/gsfonts/download , the command to extract one file is $ dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/gsfonts_blahblah.deb | tar xOf - ./usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb > /tmp/NimbusSansL.pfb and I sent the files to you on a 3 1/2" floppy ☺ Cheers, -- =S Page Features engineer _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
