On Sunday 04 May 2014 09.56:16 Rick Chung wrote:

On Saturday, May 03, 2014 06:41:39 PM Andres Silva wrote:

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Rick Chung wrote:

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On Saturday, May 03, 2014 04:20:35 PM Andres Silva wrote:

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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Review Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 16:17:41 -0600 From: Andres Silva To: opensuse-artwork CC: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org.org

Hello all,

I just wanted to give you a quick heads up in hopes to get some good ideas about this. I proposed long ago a set of ideas as far as artwork goes to integrate for the next version of openSUSE. One that I wanted to tell you about is changing the current font to open sans. This font family is very complete and also features a clean and sharp look for screens. Every time I use it, I feel that it can be changed to bold, thin, semibold and it keeps a strong presence and welcoming feeling.

It also coincides with recent advances made by the design team at SUSE that chose this font also to be featured in artwork for our openSUSE booths and marketing materials.

To see examples of this look here http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans

I have the means to push this change so I just wanted to check on some thoughts about it.

Thank you

It looks clear and nice however some tests are needed to set by default.

Did you test it on your system? Where is the source to install it?

Regards,

I used the source provided by google at their fonts page. You can download the entire family as a zip file. I have tried this on KDE and Gnome with nice results. Let me show you the combination that I have on KDE right now.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s10/sh/97dda7cd-7b63-482b-b905-2398876e2bc9/5 b6ef66f27c673f333287c176ed6f19c/deep/0/OpenSUSE-64-bit.png

Thank you for pointing me to the source.

It looks nice, clear and using less space than Sans Serif.

I will be testing it on different settings for app windows next few days ahead.

Regards,

Rick Chung

Why installing a zip file when you can grab them from oss repo zypper in google-opensans-fonts If you want to check other fonts, we already have a big number of them zypper se -s font will give you a long list ... (even without all those for texlive) For me compared to my belowed choice of bitstream, the character kerning is not that good. and not clear to read in terminal, nor in text when compared to bitstream vera sans. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot ~~~Don't take Life too serious. Nobody gets out alive anyway!~~~ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On Sunday 04 of May 2014 20:11:45 Marcus Moeller wrote:

Hello all,

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I just wanted to give you a quick heads up in hopes to get some good ideas about this. I proposed long ago a set of ideas as far as artwork goes to integrate for the next version of openSUSE. One that I wanted to tell you about is changing the current font to open sans. This font family is very complete and also features a clean and sharp look for screens. Every time I use it, I feel that it can be changed to bold, thin, semibold and it keeps a strong presence and welcoming feeling.

It also coincides with recent advances made by the design team at SUSE that chose this font also to be featured in artwork for our openSUSE booths and marketing materials.

To see examples of this look here http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans

I have the means to push this change so I just wanted to check on some thoughts about it.

Thank you

It looks clear and nice however some tests are needed to set by default.

Did you test it on your system? Where is the source to install it?

Regards,

I used the source provided by google at their fonts page. You can download the entire family as a zip file. I have tried this on KDE and Gnome with nice results. Let me show you the combination that I have on KDE right now.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s10/sh/97dda7cd-7b63-482b-b905-2398876e2b c9/5 b6ef66f27c673f333287c176ed6f19c/deep/0/OpenSUSE-64-bit.png

Thank you for pointing me to the source.

It looks nice, clear and using less space than Sans Serif.

I will be testing it on different settings for app windows next few days ahead.

Regards,

Rick Chung

Why installing a zip file when you can grab them from oss repo zypper in google-opensans-fonts

If you want to check other fonts, we already have a big number of them zypper se -s font will give you a long list ... (even without all those for texlive)

For me compared to my belowed choice of bitstream, the character kerning is not that good. and not clear to read in terminal, nor in text when compared to bitstream vera sans. afaik upstream (KDE) is working on a new font set called Oxygen. I do not know the exact status, but what I have seen in the past, already looked promising. Plasma Next has Oxygen (or it's fork - Comme) as default already.

Cheers, Hrvoje

Greets Marcus

On Sunday 04 May 2014 20.16:03 Marcus Moeller wrote:

Dear šumski,

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>> I just wanted to give you a quick heads up in hopes to get some good >> ideas about this. I proposed long ago a set of ideas as far as artwork >> goes to integrate for the next version of openSUSE. One that I wanted >> to >> tell you about is changing the current font to open sans. This font >> family is very complete and also features a clean and sharp look for >> screens. Every time I use it, I feel that it can be changed to bold, >> thin, semibold and it keeps a strong presence and welcoming feeling. >> >> It also coincides with recent advances made by the design team at SUSE >> that chose this font also to be featured in artwork for our openSUSE >> booths and marketing materials. >> >> To see examples of this look here >> http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans >> >> I have the means to push this change so I just wanted to check on some >> thoughts about it. >> >> Thank you > > It looks clear and nice however some tests are needed to set by > default. > > Did you test it on your system? Where is the source to install it? > > Regards,

I used the source provided by google at their fonts page. You can download the entire family as a zip file. I have tried this on KDE and Gnome with nice results. Let me show you the combination that I have on KDE right now.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s10/sh/97dda7cd-7b63-482b-b905-2398876e2b c9/5 b6ef66f27c673f333287c176ed6f19c/deep/0/OpenSUSE-64-bit.png

Thank you for pointing me to the source.

It looks nice, clear and using less space than Sans Serif.

I will be testing it on different settings for app windows next few days ahead.

Regards,

Rick Chung

Why installing a zip file when you can grab them from oss repo zypper in google-opensans-fonts

If you want to check other fonts, we already have a big number of them zypper se -s font will give you a long list ... (even without all those for texlive)

For me compared to my belowed choice of bitstream, the character kerning is not that good. and not clear to read in terminal, nor in text when compared to bitstream vera sans. afaik upstream (KDE) is working on a new font set called Oxygen. I do not know the exact status, but what I have seen in the past, already looked promising. Plasma Next has Oxygen (or it's fork - Comme) as default already.

Great, thanks for pointing that out. Can't stand the wait ;)

Greets Marcus

In the meantime oxygen fonts are available in kde-oxygen-fonts I use them for desktop icons, and windows title :-) -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot ~~~Don't take Life too serious. Nobody gets out alive anyway!~~~