Re: Favorite Font

John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote at 19:33 this Tuesday (GMT):

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:01:47 +0000
Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
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I suppose that it is all in the eye of the beholder.
 
But LibreOffice has chosen Liberation as the default font
and it can't be just for the Unicode coverage.

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They're free to do as they like - and again, it's certainly a
functional good-enough; I just wouldn't classify it as particularly
nice on an aesthetic level, is all.

Neither is Times New Roman, or Arial. It gets the job done, and looks
clean enough.

Although perhaps moot, the Nimbus fonts, being part of the ghostscript
URW collection, AFAIK do not support Unicode. although they do support
most European languages.

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Haven't checked it for full Unicode coverage; fortunately, I don't need
more than extended Latin in my day-to-day, which it handles just fine.

I'd imagine so, if it's the default. LO does have a tool to insert
Unicode, so it would be awkward if it looked off with the default.

Print?  Does anyone still print?

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Well, if I ever get around to finishing the typesetting for my novel...

Do you mean printing documents from a standard printer?
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