Re: [GMG-Devel] [Social-mediagoblin] MediaGoblin: the Logo

[Thorsten Wilms]

On 08/19/2011 01:05 PM, Jef van Schendel wrote:

> "The first release only includes the Western character set, but
> pan-European Latin, Cyrillic and Greek extensions, as well as small
> caps and other typographic niceties are expected in 2011."
>
> Whether or not they'll really arrive in 2011, would this really be
> that big of a problem? We could simply revert back to the default
> sans-serifs if characters are unavailable.

If you want Latin, Greek and Cyrillic in one web font that is suitable 
for MediaGoblin, it would have to be Open Sans. One might think that 
would be close to just defining Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, but it 
offer many weights/cuts.

The browser will fall back to the next specified font or down to the 
default to render a missing character, afaics.

Lack of "typographic niceties" might be more of a concern. Especially 
small caps would be a nice option, but if you didn't think of using them 
yet, it may not matter.

Greek, Cyrillic (and other scripts) have a different feel, so you would 
see some contrast even within one font that covers them.

Rather neutral, but with touch of style hitting the right tone, 
free/open so it can be used as web font _and_ wide coverage is too much 
to ask, currently.


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