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zachleat / font-family-reunion

Compatibility tables for default local fonts.
http://fontfamily.io/
MIT License
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Add Linux Support #12

Closed zachleat closed 9 years ago

zachleat commented 9 years ago

https://twitter.com/mathias/status/516985222412664832

miketaylr commented 9 years ago

Please test HML distribution as well, thanks.

mathiasbynens commented 9 years ago

HML OS stylesheet leaked:

* {
  font-family: fantasy !important;
}
zachleat commented 9 years ago

oh

my

god

adrinux commented 9 years ago

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Arch? That would be the major families I think. Not sure how much variation there is between distros. I have a Debian 7 vm if that's any help, what do you need to know?

tomByrer commented 9 years ago

Seems Mint is more popular than Ubuntu: http://distrowatch.com/ (I've seen similar mentions on other sites). ElementryOS seems gaining popularity. Though it is a Ubuntu fork, it's GUI is drastically changed, & comes with their own WebKit browser, Midori.

zachleat commented 9 years ago

Good info! I probably won’t do more than two or three unless someone really begs :) http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

So, that’d be Mint, Ubuntu, and maybe Debian.

tomByrer commented 9 years ago

Does each distros' WindowManager (KDE, Gnome, Unity, etc) install different fonts?

adrinux commented 9 years ago

This distrowatch page you're linking to http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity counts hits to their website – at best it's a measure of the buzz around a given distro, I don't think it equates to installed user base. There's also the fact that Mint is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian. I was suggesting taking a distro from each popular family - Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch.

But not only do I not know if each WindowManager configures different default fonts, what does each browser install do? There's no reason to believe they would fall back on system defaults...

Really just need to nail down a couple of the most popular distros and go with default install I think.

adrinux commented 9 years ago

The distro timeline svg on the right here is just scary in this context :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions

adrinux commented 9 years ago

Fwiw I have a Xubuntu desktop VM and full installs of Ubuntu desktop and Crunchbang desktop on other partitions (Debian vm I mentioned is actually server version). Still not clear on what you're doing to derive that data for fontfamily.io

zachleat commented 9 years ago

Ubuntu 14.04 added: http://fontfamily.io/os/ubuntu-14

tomByrer commented 9 years ago

107 fonts, that's alot! Thanks :)

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Zach Leatherman notifications@github.com wrote:

Ubuntu 14.04 added: http://fontfamily.io/os/ubuntu-14

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/zachleat/font-family-reunion/issues/12#issuecomment-58126206 .

zachleat commented 9 years ago

Fedora 20 added: http://fontfamily.io/os/fedora-20

zachleat commented 9 years ago

I downloaded Arch Linux to try it out but the default install didn’t even have a window manager by default so I think I’m gonna close this for now. If there are additional distro requests, please open additional tickets—thank you!