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Unfortunately they only cover the iso8859 character sets, so there arenвЂ™t any East Asian or Indic symbols, but Qt (donвЂ™t know about GTK2/Pango) will automatically pull in characters from other fonts to fill the gaps in Unicode coverage, so really thereвЂ™s no need for single multi-megabyte Unicode fonts.

The family is called Luxi (used to be called Lucidux), and there are sans, serif and monospace variants, each with regular, bold, italic and bold italic styles. XFree86 comes with an excellent set of Type1 and TrueType screen-optimized fonts donated by Bigelow & Holmes (the same people that designed Lucida). The downfall of this is that it would likely end up being several hundred thousands of dollars in development costs, and, were they not to release them for everybodyвЂ™s use in the Linux community, they might as well be asking for a copious flames and general hatred from the everything-for-free majority /.-ish crowd. Another option would be for one of the large Linux companies to hire a few font developers, let them work on their fonts for a year or so, and then, again, have themselves a handful of high quality truetype fonts to include with their distribution.

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I think Redhat, Sun, or ought to license a handful of high quality truetype fonts from a type house and include them in their shrinkwrapped distrosвЂ¦ thatвЂ™s certainly a value-added extra that could convince me to actually purchase a distribution. Tar c /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype/ | gzip > ДЄnyway, I meant to mention this in my previous post, but forgot. ItвЂ™s not like open source people would necessarily be above thatвЂ¦ look at KDEвЂ™s stock save/open dialog box.

Interestingly, however, copyright law doesnвЂ™t protect typefaces, just their name one could, in theory, print out at very high resolution a good quality font, scan it in, then reconstruct it with minimal effort, call it something else, and, bam, we got ourselves our very own font. I would love if some philanthropist typographer dumped a bunch of quality fonts into public domain, but there are no typographers with that much money. In addition to the up-front design work, a typographer must adjust the kerning, make sure the fonts are properly hinted so they render without garbage and artifacts at low resolution, account for ligatures, etc., etc., etc. It may seem to be an easy task, and perhaps creating the basic idea and look of the typeface is, but there is so much detailed and painstaking work involved in turning a typeface into something usable, particularly on a low-resolution device such as our monitors.

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It takes a professional typographer about a year to create a decent font. There must be plans afoot for some major corporations to convert their вЂњfleetsвЂќ of desktop computers to linux, and/or for some major hardware distributors to start preinstalling linux on a much wider scale.ДЇonts are tough to make. I wonder why because Linux only has a 1% market share on the desktop. This shows that MS is very worried about Linux on the desktop.

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MicrosoftвЂ™s pulling the free fonts from its download area is a very petty move which will be remembered, moreso than some heineous crimes MS has committed.

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Maybe thatвЂ™s just me, but this has caused me to favor full screen terminal editors over X editors so far.

On the other hand I find the standard console fonts for linux easy to read and well-proportioned.

Yuck! Also, simpler naming conventions for linux fonts would encourage developers to show more taste in the font specifications in their applications. Lucida typewriter is a much nicer fixed font, but so many apps specify вЂњfixedвЂќ or default to вЂњcourierвЂќ. I find it hard to believe that someone could not design a more attractive font that вЂњfixedвЂќ, for example. WhatвЂ™s so hard about designing attractive, easy to read fonts for linux? True Type and anti-aliasing issues aside (which have now been solved in the major distributions) the standard set of X11 bitmapped fonts for linux leaves much to be desired.