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When will Ubuntu font be out for testing?

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#1

I can't wait using a real font. All the fonts I tried have uneven rendering, I hope this one fixes it.. :(

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#3

23meg said: Here's the video of the UDS session where Bruno Maag introduced the font:

http://videos.ubuntu.com/uds/maverick/UDS-M-Making-Beautiful-Fonts-high.ogv http://videos.ubuntu.com/uds/maverick/UDS-M-Making-Beautiful-Fonts-low.ogv

I just scrubbed through the video. Does the camera ever actually point to the screen? If not, that's some pretty stupid filming.

"look the kerning and readability with did" *image not visible*

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Merk42 said: I just scrubbed through the video. Does the camera ever actually point to the screen? If not, that's some pretty stupid filming.

"look the kerning and readability with did" *image not visible*

yah, pretty useless

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23meg said: Here's the video of the UDS session where Bruno Maag introduced the font:

http://videos.ubuntu.com/uds/maverick/UDS-M-Making-Beautiful-Fonts-high.ogv http://videos.ubuntu.com/uds/maverick/UDS-M-Making-Beautiful-Fonts-low.ogv

And don't forget the awesome plenary talks on Wednesday:

http://ubuntu.mirocommunity.com/video/194/uds-m-plenary-wednesday (Bruno Maag's is the last one).

Short, exciting and inspiring.

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Merk42 said: I just scrubbed through the video. Does the camera ever actually point to the screen? If not, that's some pretty stupid filming.

"look the kerning and readability with did" *image not visible*

He's teasing.

#7

Is the presentation from the video 23meg posted available anywhere? I looked through both the Ubuntu wiki and launchpad and couldn't find anything. As I said earlier the video is kind of pointless without seeing what Bruno Maag is talking about.

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Merk42 said: Is the presentation from the video 23meg posted available anywhere?

Why yes, yes it is:

http://www.daltonmaag.com/docs/FontDevelopment.pdf

#9

The Ubuntu font - created on Microsoft Windows. :D

#10

MacUntu said: The Ubuntu font - created on Microsoft Windows. :D

The GNU C Compiler - typed up on a proprietary UNIX.

#11

Cool so maverick will have a new font by default? I had been wondering why the hell so many distros use sans as default, its a pretty ugly and space wasting font IMO. One of the first things I do installing any distro is change the font to something nicer like droid sans.

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23meg said: The GNU C Compiler - typed up on a proprietary UNIX.

Ok, that's it - I'm back to pen and paper. :P

#13

MacUntu said: The Ubuntu font - created on Microsoft Windows. :D

Find me an enterprise-level font creator that runs on Linux.

Besides, there's no need to be dogmatic about using Windows once in a while.

#14

gbdfed :lolflag:

#15

Touché.

#16

starks said:

besides, there's no need to be dogmatic about using windows once in a while.

arf arf

#17

Where's Obelix when you need him?