By the way, there was a discussion recently on debian list about packaging a high quality *free* font. I didn't read the whole thread, so I do not know what is the current statement.
luc
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:54:47 +0200
Nils Faerber <nils@kernelconcepts.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:42:06 +0100
> mallum <breakfast@10.am> wrote:
> > on Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:20:56AM +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
> > > Those are nice, agreed, but
> > > they are (c) M$ and thus cannot be distributed freely. I have found
> > > a nice free TTF font on the web that can be used for example for
> > > mmenu. You can download it from
> > > http://www.handhelds.org/~nils/baramond.zip
> > Cool;
> > What license is it distributed under ?
>
> Err... I should have kept the URL ;)
> I think it was freeware.
>
> > > IMHO we could use this one to replace Verdana (better replacements
> > > welcome!).
> > I sans-serif font would be better fit.
>
> Yep. Got one? Free?
>
> > > I am still looking for a good monospaced font that could be
> > > used e.g. for xkbd.
> > Why monospaced ? Xkbd will work fine with any spaced fonts ( and keep
> > the single char keys the same size ).
>
> Does it?
> I had the impression that it does not but that may also be from old
> versions, sorry ;) Anyway we need one for example for rxvt.
>
> > -- Matthew
> CU
> nils faerber
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