[Design-team] MgOpen Modata & accents

[Máirín Duffy]

Luya's blog post tonight [1] reminded me of an ongoing issue we have -
our secondary font, MgOpen Modata, doesn't have basic accent marks (I
can't even write my own name in it.) 

Do we want to consider switching to a different font that does? There
are more openly-licensed fonts than ever, far more than when we
initially decided to go with MgOpen Modata. I found this font that has a
similar rounded look (it's a wider and more widely-spaced font, but I
think that's okay) and it seems to cover all the basic accents including
acute, grave, umlat, circumflex, etc.:

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Quicksand

It's called Quicksand. The author has said he has released it
'license-free' and commercial use is permitted. We would need to get in
touch with him and see if he would be amenable to releasing it under a
recognized open font license before we could include it in Fedora, but
he does seem responsive in the typophile forums [2]. 

What do you think?

~m

[1]
http://blog.thefinalzone.net/2010/06/mgopen-modata-andet-accents.html

[2] http://www.typophile.com/node/50437#comment-346232