[gcompris-devel] Better font sets

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

to. den 02. 05. 2013 klokka 15.13 (+0100) skreiv Fòram na Gàidhlig:
> After talking to a school, they said that the children will have 
> problems reading the font. In particular, the font lacks a little hook 
> on the bottom of the a and l. They like to use Sassoon Infant. 
> Unfortunately, this is not a free font. They would be OK with Comic Sans 
> though.

I very much recommend *not* using Comic Sans; it’s wholly inappropriate.
What I do strongly recommend is Andika:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=andika&_sc=1

        Andika is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font designed
        especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of
        beginning readers. The focus is on clear, easy-to-perceive
        letterforms that will not be readily confused with one another.

I think Andika is easy to read, has nice, friendly letterforms and
several nice touches. For example the b and d characters and the p and q
characters are not mirror images of each others, making it much harder
to confuse them. It currently does not include an italic or bold
variant, however.

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Karl Ove Hufthammer
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