[gcompris-devel] Better font sets

[Michael Bauer]

You're right about Comic. We did find an alternative, Ruluko, in the 
end. Andika seems like an interesting choice too, it has a broader 
character range. One of the key issues for the schools was the a/l. The 
a looks fine in Andika, but the l requires a true/false setting to 
change between the l with and without hook. Is that feasible in GCompris?

Michael

20/05/2013 11:12, sgrìobh Karl Ove Hufthammer:
>
> 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.
>