Liberation fonts vs Google croscore fonst

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#1

Hi, this must be an old topic but I wonder why LibreOffice does not use the full set of google croscore fonts.

Currently, LibreOffice includes Caladea and Carlito replacing Cambria and Calibri fonts. However, LibreOffice does not include the fonts Arimo, Tinos and Cousine (replacing Arial, Times New Roman and Courier), liberation fonts: better visualization, metric gauge more compatible with microsoft fonts, increased support glyph, etc.

From what I've read, since version 2.0 of Liberation Fons is a fork of google croscore fonts ... but in practice do not appear.

Is there any reason to prefer Liberation fonts over google croscore fonts?

#2

I'm not informed on that specifically, but usually forks are made for
license issues, so that may be the "problem".

Try comparing Google and Liberation Fonts licenses if you wish, and if
you'll do please report to us as well.

I'd appreciate, at least :wink:

#3

I'm not informed on that specifically, but usually forks are made for
license issues, so that may be the "problem".

Liberation fonts 2.0 (SIL open font license1.1) is a fork of google croscore fonts, due to the initial license of "liberation fonts" (GPL v2): https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/

Try comparing Google and Liberation Fonts licenses if you wish, and if
you'll do please report to us as well.

I'd appreciate, at least :wink:

Google croscore fonts they are licensed under ASL 2.0 (LibreOffice supports). Currently the google crosextra fonts are included with LibreOffice.

superior quality of the google fonts think they should be included as standard in LibreOffice for the benefit of their users.

.cheers

#4

Thank you.

I guess the suggestion should have arrived at destination (devs) as (some
of) they also should read this list as well.

#5

Most developers don't read this list as it's designed to be about users
supporting one another. I suggest emailing the ux list as that's where user
experience is discussed by contributors (developers and non-developers).

Best,
Joel

#6

Joel, thank you very much.

I sent this issue to this list, because most projects do not recommend submitting questions/discussions on developer mailing lists, if I am not a developer.

,Cheers

#7

Which version of LibreOffice started including the Caladea and Carlito fonts?

I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my desktop [replacing Linux Mint for printer issues] and it installs 4.2.x.
I had 4.4.x installed before and it did not install those fonts. I copied the .font folder and made sure my font were re installed after the OS replacement was finished.

So whatever version of 4.4,x I was using did not have those fonts included, I wonder which version does.

#8

@Tim, *

krackedpress wrote

Which version of LibreOffice started including the Caladea and Carlito
fonts?

I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my desktop [replacing Linux Mint for
printer issues] and it installs 4.2.x.
I had 4.4.x installed before and it did not install those fonts. I
copied the .font folder and made sure my font were re installed after
the OS replacement was finished.

So whatever version of 4.4,x I was using did not have those fonts
included, I wonder which version does.

Been there for quite a while -- Oct 2013 --
http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/history/core/external/more_fonts/

commited to master with
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=bde5e683286096b9255254b28a862e519d57f547

and was then back-ported to 4.1.4 with
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-4-1-4&id=2158e8bf85e139fd3cf59d00059ed2e2026f6a4a

However, the "bundled" externals--including fonts--are often adjusted in the
build done by your distro maintainer. You might need the vanilla TDF
LibreOffice repo if you really want those fonts. But, your distro
maintainer probably had a reason to leave them out.

Stuart