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Arkpandora TTF - The MS Webfonts Replacement

Submitted by gavindi on Sun, 2003-10-05 01:37. Usability

Many people are still getting (by whatever means) the core MS fonts for their Linux Desktop. This project is meant to be as a replacement for some of these main fonts. They have been designed to match similarly with the fonts they replace. The fonts are derived from the Bitstream Vera fonts and are available under the same terms as Vera.

This pack is the Arkpandora font set.

They can be found at:

http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/gavindi/With this set, you get Aerial instead of Arial, Tymes instead of Times New Roman and Veranda instrad of Verdana.

Re: Better Vera packages have been available long ago

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2003-10-05 15:28.

I readily admit after seing the

"You may find that you will need to do a rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force"

install instructions I was maybe a bit prejudiced.

Then after looking at the amateurish spec file I gave up.

If the fonts are indeed a Vera rework then I may have been a bit harsh. Especially if they add new glyphs (I wouldn't care less about the metrics parts people have been providing bad helvetica clones for years, arial being the only success).

In this case however the project should be managed at the Gnome level (I won't install twenty Vera derivatives each with their own glyph coverage) and the Vera license is the worst to use since it forces forking.

Moreover, unless the author magically managed to plug the bit glyph coverage holes of Vera it's false to advertise them as Corefonts replacements - Corefonts ar far from being latin-only sets.

To sum up the original post was so full of vaporware-like advertising, the bits I could review were so bad, the chosen license and mode of distribution so flawed I didn't do a full install. Shoot me. It's not my fault the author decided to advertise its mistakes and didn't even mention whatever real technical contributions he did.

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