Comments on: How To Install Droid Fonts on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty”

By: Millikan

Millikan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:10:57 +0000

Thanks for that tip. I just switched from Liberation to DejaVu following your suggestion and you're so correct. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

By: manifestmoney

manifestmoney — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:14:33 +0000

Got to love linux repos.

By: manifestmoney

manifestmoney — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:11:57 +0000

Nice post dude

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:26:26 +0000

Very useful post. I'm working on Android mockups, and this made life easier…now if I could figure out their font sizes and colors….

Got to love linux repos.

By: Stefano F. (tacone)

Stefano F. (tacone) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:15:59 +0000

@jldugger: the README.debian of the packages says:
“- Removed Ahem.ttf from the original tarball, license unclear.”

So I’d guess every font included in the package is under Apache2, since they already stripped the doubtful ones.

See if you can find further info on their website:
http://www.ascendercorp.com/pr/2007-11-12/

By: Emilio

Emilio — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:26:57 +0000

I use this fonts since they have been released. They look sharper than Liberation and much modern than Vera… I think they should be the default on Ubuntu.

By: jldugger

jldugger — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:16:38 +0000

Can anyone tell me what license the font is released under? The package says Apache but I recall reading that it was uncertain whether the license applied the font somehow.

By: Filippo

Filippo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:37:11 +0000

I believe DejaVu Sans Condensed with subpixel hinting has no rivals for everyday desktop use

By: Jarko

Jarko — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:38:25 +0000

I have used these fonts on my desktop with dust theme for some time now..and I have to say they’re pretty beautiful together

Screenshot:
http://kuvaton.com/k/8Uc.png

By: yosch

yosch — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:12:13 +0000

In the upstream Debian font team we run a regular review of all fonts in the archive to generate thumbnails and extract the description metadata: http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/review/

A good place to look for quality open fonts.

There’s also the Unifont.org fontguide:
http://unifont.org/fontguide/ and the OpenFontLibrary: http://www.openfontlibrary.org