Favourite Fonts

[b3n87]

Im doing a course at my local college and use OO.o Word a lot,

Just out of interest, what's your favourite font or fonts?

Something clean and crisp would be nice as the assignments Im doing have to be "formal"

[el mariachi]

MgOpen, Fontin, Fertigo, Luxi Sans

[spupy]

Sans and Monospace! \o/

[Barrucadu]

Sans and Verdana.

[chucky chuckaluck]

baekmuk batang and bitstream charter. the former looks like a messy version of the latter.

[Brunellus]

I like Gentium. It's a much nicer typeface, I think, than the now-ubiquitous Times New Roman.

[bruce89]

Computer Modern and Palatino.

[Kingsley]

Times New Roman and Arial.

[eljoeb]

Arial, Tahoma, or Calibri. I also like Liberation Sans.

[el mariachi]

since you're also choosing proprietary fonts:
Corbel and Segoe and Myriad Pro oh and Helvetica :D

[Bachstelze]

my default fonts are :

Serif: MgOpen Canonica
Sans serif: Verdana
Monospaced: DejaVu Sans Mono

But I don't do much formal writing, so I most of the time stick with Computer Modern in my LaTeX documents, and that's good enough.

[el_ricardo]

Gill Sans
Tahoma
Helvetica
Courier
Cooper

=the typefaces i use for most of my work

[diffuze]

Verdana

[bruce89]

Verdana

Is it just me or does Verdana look like a clone of Bitstream Vera?

[jespdj]

Have a look at LinuxLibertine (http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/), a very good-looking and high quality open source font. I recently found it in the forums here in another thread in which someone asked the same question.

[bruce89]

Have a look at LinuxLibertine (http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/), a very good-looking and high quality open source font. I recently found it in the forums here in another thread in which someone asked the same question.

Debian doesn't include it as it is non-free. It is in Hardy's multiverse however.

[diffuze]

Is it just me or does Verdana look like a clone of Bitstream Vera?
Yes, they're extremely similar!
I had the impression that Bitstream Vera is a clone of Verdana though. :o

[days_of_ruin]

Liberation Sans ftw!
:guitar:

[jespdj]

Debian doesn't include it as it is non-free. It is in Hardy's multiverse however.
Strange, because the website explicitly explains that the font is open source and under the GPL license (http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/Libertine-EN.html#licence). So I wonder why Debian considers it to be non-free.

[bruce89]

Strange, because the website explicitly explains that the font is open source and under the GPL license (http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/Libertine-EN.html#licence). So I wonder why Debian considers it to be non-free.

There is a GPL exception which Debian say makes it non-distributable:


(b) As a further exception, any distribution of the object code of the Software in a physical product must provide you the right to access and modify the source code for the Software and to reinstall that modified version of the Software in object code form on the same physical product on which you received it.

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg36584.html