[Design-team] MgOpen Modata & accents

[Nicu Buculei]

On 06/04/2010 06:40 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> 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.)

I was hit by the same issue too.

> 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

For my language (Romanian) is not good enough, missing: ă, ș, ț.

> 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].

Yeah, the license certainly must be cleared, maybe he will be interested 
to learn about openfontlibrary.org

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