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[Martin Lukeš <martin.meridius@xxxxxxxxx>]

So here's my opinion.
I don't like serifed fonts for document of this type, it would be just too
formal. So this rules out second document. ;)

Now for the first document:
Fonts I find too thin and with too wide spaces for body text are 4,9, 10, 11
and 14. These may be used for notes.
For title and headlines I have these candidates 1, 2, 3, 5, 14. But my
winner is number 3 because it's just right chubby.
Other fonts seems pretty same to me. ;)


And personally I think it would be good if in all language versions of our
document would be used the same font(s) - for integrity. But it would
require not just Cyrillic char support but "nationalized" Latin chars as
well, not mentioning Chinese and other Eastern chars.
But I'm no typographer so I really don't know if this is possible. :D

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Regards
Martin Lukeš


On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I created 2 test pages with free/open-source fonts we could use, one for
> serif, one for sans-serif.
>
> Inkscape allowed me to scale the text easily to roughly normalize the
> capital height, but it can't embed fonts, so the PDF exports are a bit
> large and Evince can become slow displaying them.
>
> You need to have the fonts installed on your system for the SVGs to make
> sense. See list of fonts at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Artwork#Fonts
>
>
> Direct links to the PDFs:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Artwork?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=font_test_sans_converted.pdf
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Artwork?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=font_test_serif_converted.pdf
>
>
> Please have a look at the PDF files and offer you opinion on which
> font(s) are most or least suitable for the body text, title and
> headlines (can be different fonts). For italic, we could make a separate
> choice.
>
> This is about legibility, evenness of whole blocks of text and our
> desired tone (encompassing friendly, serious, competent ...). Must be
> solid, but we're not trying to sell insurances and it's not the
> typographer's journal ;)
>
> The fonts used in the upper rows support Cyrillic.
>
> The font names shouldn't be prominent to not tap into possible
> preconceptions, but to still allow easy identification, they are the
> last part of the text for each font.
>
> I used the great Fontmatrix to make a selection out of more than 1700
> fonts, just looking for plain text fonts. Many had to be weeded out
> because of bad kerning (e.g. if "We" looks more like "W e"). Note that
> Fontmatrix in Karmic is slightly broken, better get a fresh one from
> their site.
>
>
> --
> Thorsten Wilms
>
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>
>
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