Is Clear Sans a true free/libre font?
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Does anyone know if this is considered a true free font? I know its under Apache 2.0, but sometimes a font is not considered fully open unless the font can be built with free software.
"Clear Sans can be freely utilized by application, browser and operating system developers. The design has not been open-sourced."
Since the source code is unavailable, it's not a free font.
Also, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736665.
Shame really, looks good.
Yeah, but thankfully there are other free fonts that work well for the UI. I use Roboto (apt-get install fonts-roboto in Trisquel 7) for the default and window title fonts in Trisquel and Ubuntu.
I am totally on to that. :D
Can you make a screenshotty of fonts-roboto and upload to https://screenshots.debian.net/package/fonts-roboto (which is where Debian based distros fetch the screenshotties from.)
I don't know if there is some standard for fonts screenshots but you might want to investigate that first. Such a standard obviously would make it easier to compare fonts. Perhaps this would do also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog
fonts-croscore in Trisquel 7 provides better fonts than fonts-liberation since Arimo, Tinos, and Cousine are based on Liberation, but also provide more language support.
I was just showing some examples of font screenshots because lembas suggested that you upload one.
I have never heard of fonts-croscore, I'll take a look at it.
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