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2024-03-30 04:44:51 +01:00
Open Sans is sooo much better than Arimo
- Open Sans and Noto Sans are pretty much indentical
- Noto Sans has a bit thicker glyphs and less accents
Lucida Grande:
Lucida Sans:
Lucida Sans Unicode:
- ???
Helvetica Neue:
- Noto Sans
Comic Sans:
- Calluna Sans
- Kalam
- Patrick Hand
- Gloria Hallelujah
- Indie Flower - really playful
- Handlee - no special chars
- Schoolbell - nope
TODO:
make list of MS fonts by type (serif, sans-serif)
Tools:
http://typographing.com
Android fonts:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/refs/heads/master/data/fonts/fonts.xml
Problems:
https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/07/25/the-rust-compiler-is-still-getting-faster/
links:
- https://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/the-best-free-alternatives-to-the-most-popular-fonts
- http://www.designtheway.com/most-used-fonts-alternative-google-fonts/
- https://eev.ee/blog/2015/05/20/i-stared-into-the-fontconfig-and-the-fontconfig-stared-back-at-me/
nice looking sites:
- http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/
Georgia usage:
- https://josebrowne.com/on-coding-ego-and-attention/
TeX Gyre Scholar Regular
- http://jepsen.io/analyses/postgresql-12.3
Cambria
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/07/02/quake-iii-arena-bots-reportedly-stop-fighting-after-4-year-match/#5aab55076233