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   Message 133,719 of 135,536   
   Chris Ahlstrom to Farley Flud   
   Re: Google Releases New Open Font   
   20 Dec 25 11:27:28   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Farley Flud wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > Google has released a new open-source font:   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   > What does it look like?  Here is a comparison, using   
   > LibreOffice, between my favorite font, Liberation, and   
   > Google-Flex-Sans:   
   >   
   > https://i.postimg.cc/CxxyV51y/logsffont1.png   
   >   
   > Not bad!  In fact I believe that I tend to prefer it   
   > over Liberation Sans, but with LO I usually employ a   
   > "serif" font.   
      
   Li'l Marco wants you to use Time New Roman, not these woke fonts.   
      
   > But how does it perform with Unicode?  Check:   
   >   
   > https://i.postimg.cc/BnnWGb6s/logsffont2.png   
   >   
   > It seems to have good Unicode coverage as well.   
      
   Terminus (my current favorite) does pretty well on the Unicode   
   test page, except for Tamil, Bengali, Tibetan, and a few others.   
      
          
      
   > Installing it is simple.  Just copy to "~/.fonts"   
   > and execute "fc-cache -r."  That's all.   
      
   The newer convention is ~/.local/share/fonts.   
      
   > Distro lackeys, however, will need to search for   
   > their pretty "button" that says "Font Install"   
   > or other such DE bullshit.   
      
   I copied atarist-normal.otf to the above directory for fun and   
   nostalgia.   
      
   > Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!   
      
   Easily amused, eh?   
      
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