On 09/21/2015 07:55 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2015 18:16:59 Curt wrote: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_%28typeface%29 >> >> "Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of typefaces named after >> its Swiss designer, Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger is a humanist sans-serif >> typeface, intended to be clear and highly legible at a distance or at >> small text sizes. A very popular design worldwide, font designer Steve >> Matteson described its structure as "the best choice for legibility in >> pretty much any situation" at small text sizes, while Erik Spiekermann >> named it as "the best general typeface ever"." > > Sadly, it appears not to be available for Debian, or rather, in the Debian > Wheezy repositories. Frutiger is not free: neither free-as-in-beer nor free-as-in-speach. If you want to use it you have to pay for it. It may come bundled with some commercial proprietary software packages. > I use large point Bitstream Vera Sans. Of all the ones I have tried, I have > found it the easiest and the least tiring, but I cannot justify this over > other similar fonts. I just subjectively find it so. Btw. there's also "Hack" that was recently announced, partially based on Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. They have an own font license[1] for it, where I'm not completely sure whether it's free-as-in-speach (clause 1 might be problematic in that regard), but its development model is open and they claim to be "open source" and "libre" - and you can definitely use it freely for your own documents. See: https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ (Haven't tried using it myself yet, but it fits the topic of this thread.) Christian [1] https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Hack/blob/master/LICENSE.md
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