Depends how international you want it! Adobe Pro fonts have many glyphs, especially the newer fonts. Comparing the number of glyphs:
Fedora fonts ~~~~~~~~~~~~ DejaVu Serif Book: 2885 DejaVu Sans Book: 5270 DejaVu Sans Mono Book: 3020 Liberation Serif Regular: 668 Liberation Sans Regular: 675 Liberation Mono Regular: 670 Linux Libertine Regular: 2388 Charis SIL Regular: 3289 Doulos SIL Regular: 3288 Gentium Regular: 1699 The URW fonts I got in OpenType have 300 or so glyphs. The type-1 Fedora ships, which have Cyrillic but broken Romanian, have around 500.
Adobe Pro ~~~~~~~~~ Adobe Caslon Pro Regular: 801 Minion Pro Regular: 1668 Arno Pro Regular: 2846 Garamond Premier Pro Regular: 2735 Myriad Pro Regular: 846 Courier Std Medium: 374 [I don't have any Pro monospaced]
MS XP + EU Expansion Font Update ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Arial Regular: 1680 Times New Roman Regular: 1680 Verdana Regular: 913 Microsoft Sans Serif Regular: 2259 Courier New Regular: 1318 (this actullay lacks Romanian glyphs, it wasn't updated)
MS Vista (actually these are from PPT Viewer 2k7, I don't have Vista) ~~~~~~~~ Cambria Bold: 979 [note: fontmatrix cannot read ttc files, like the Cambria Regular + Math] Constantia Regular: 994 Calibri Regular: 1121 Corbel Regular: 987 Candara Regular: 966 Consolas Regular: 709
MS Office 2k3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Palatino Linotype Regular: 1328 Tahoma Regular: 2036
So, DejaVu Sans may win the number of glyphs contest, but I wouldn't print stuff in DejaVu. Linux Libertine is much better in that respect. Liberation is somewhere in between. What Linux really needs is a sans version of Libertine! If I were Redhat management I'd pay Philipp Poll or the SIL fokes instead of Ascender Corp! Btw, Charis SIL is okay for some jobs, but it is a slab serif.
Btw, I have no need to write Chinese or Arabic, but there commercial fonts for those too!
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net wrote:
Le Mar 22 juillet 2008 15:06, Michal Nowak a écrit :
On 14:30 Tue 22 Jul , Vasile Gaburici wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vasile Gaburici vgaburici@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Fwd: the ivory tower and the bazaar]
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gaburici/linux-fonts.png]
I am sorry for my ignorance but what does the thousand-word-picture actually said?
I guess it said that if you were willing to shell a lot of $$$, you could buy proprietary font sets that let you write the same basic latin text in lots of slightly different ways, while being unable to use any language that needed more that the 26 basic latin letters.
Of course not everyone has the same priorities.
-- Nicolas Mailhot
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