da2x
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3 years ago Elementary ship Croscore instead. It’s also metric-compatible with Times/Times New Roman, Helvetica/Arial and Courier/Courier New.
Open waldyrious opened 6 years ago
da2x
commented
3 years ago Elementary ship Croscore instead. It’s also metric-compatible with Times/Times New Roman, Helvetica/Arial and Courier/Courier New.
(Originally reported at https://github.com/elementary/seed-metapackages/pull/5)
Linux Libertine (Wikipedia) provides an independently-designed, high-quality serif font. (Update: the original project has become stale, but there's an actively maintained fork, Libertinus.)
The design is independent, unlike the (already included) Liberation family of fonts, which offers metrically identical alternatives to the widespread fonts Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New.
I was actually quite surprised that this font wasn't included by default in a popular Linux distro. I'm now worried that I can't rely on it being present (e.g. for stylesheets like downstyle). Are you aware of any explicit or implicit standards/recommendations for fonts that are included in distros, @codygarver? Also, was elementary's current selection organically grown, or are there guidelines for what should or not be included?