[Design-team] MgOpen Modata & accents

[Luya Tshimbalanga]

On 04/06/10 02:12 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 14:07 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>   
>> Speaking only for my tastes, this font seems more excentric than
>> Modata.  The wider spacing could have a negative impact on content
>> where we can effectively use Modata now -- having to use a lot more
>> space for the same amount of information.  I'm not saying we want a
>> tightly condensed font, but Quicksand seems skewed too far in the
>> other direction.
>>     
> I totally agree with the wide spacing impacting the amount of space
> needed in documents. To be fair though, the secondary font really should
> be used for titling type of stuff only - signage, headings, that kind of
> thing. I don't think Modata is a great body text font. E.g. here's an
> example of a brand book using VAG where it's strictly set as headline
> type and not meant for body type (which == Modata, long story short VAG
> was public domained and Modata is a derivative): 
>
> http://www.arcelormittal.tv/healthandsafety/files/Documents/graphical/graphical_guideline_HS.pdf
>
>
> We don't actually have an official body text font (I tend to use
> Liberation Sans when laying out body text), maybe we should pick a
> specific one and add it to our brand guidelines.
>   
Gnu Free Sans seems suitable for body text. It is very close to
Helvetica and better than Liberation Sans IMO.

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