[Design-team] Initial Anaconda installer mockup

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 25 20:50:07 UTC 2010


Hi Luya,

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 13:20 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
> On 25/10/10 07:26 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > I like the visual design of these mockups (although I'm not sure
> that
> > Anaconda/GRUB have the fonts necessary available at that point in
> the
> > boot process.)
> I was wondering about that case but seeing GRUB from other
> distributions show the possibility.
> Asking what fonts can be used on Anaconda will be helpful. The current
> incarnation feels so legacy.

So I talked to Peter Jones & Chris Lumens in #anaconda, basically:

- syslinux & grub use system bitmap fonts so they can't use arbitrary
fonts right now
- anaconda can support any fonts X can support, so Comfortaa/Cantarell
are possible here

Hope this helps!

~m



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