Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Adobe Releases New Openly Licensed Coding Font

Posted by Unknown on from the since-when-was-adobe-this-cool dept.

tqft writes "From the sourceforge page: 'Source Sans is a set of monospaced OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well coding environments. This family of fonts is a complementary design to the Source Sans family.' License: Open Font License 1.1 (OFL 1.1) (both FSF and DFSG free). Hope to see it Debian (& other) repositories soon." The example text doesn't really look too much better than Inconsolata. But, hey, who can complain about more liberally licensed fonts?

3 of 136 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Call me a dinosaur... by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Insightful

    8ut there are lots of reasons to switch away from Courier. 0ne obvious reason is that l made four easy-to-over1ook typos in this post alone.

    --

    Obliteracy: Words with explosions

  2. Re:Call me a dinosaur... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's only three typos in your post and believe me they're very easy to see on a system where fonts are displayed properly instead of being hammered into sub-pixels.

    Nope, four:
    8ut - 8 not B
    0ne - 0 not O
    that l made - lower case L not I
    easy-to-over1ook - 1 not l

    not so easy to see I guess.

  3. Re:Call me a dinosaur... by flimflammer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wow, I don't think you could have made his point any better right there.