[Design-team] MgOpen Modata & accents

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 5 19:19:20 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 18:59 -0400, Ian Weller wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 05:12:53PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The whole MgOpen not having accents thing has bugged me since my
> development of fedora-business-cards, where I used Máirín's FAS
> information as a test to see if my code worked with Unicode.
> 
> But anyway. You'll never guess what I have in the brand guidelines draft
> I'm working on. :)
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ianweller/Brand_guidelines_(draft)#Fonts
> 
> We could use either Liberation or Droid. It matters not to me.

I would word it more strongly than that, I would say it's meant to be a
titling font, for secondary wordmarks, and for accents/callout, and body
text should be $whatever-good-body-font-we-pick.

I really like Droid Sans...

~m



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