[gcompris-devel] Better font sets

[Bruno Coudoin]

Hi,

Does someone knows what would be the process to integrate a font in our 
build and distribution process?

Bruno.

Le 20. 05. 13 13:53, Fòram na Gàidhlig a écrit :
> AFAIK it is not, but we could use SIL's TypeTuner to change the font to
> the settings we want before we add it to the paclage.
>
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=typetuner
>
>
>
> 20/05/2013 11:32, sgrìobh 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.
>>>
>>