Re: Four (open-source) Greek fonts are now available, and why it's relevant

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 5/15/05, Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net> wrote:
> Hi,
> Just to announce the availability of four Greek fonts, at
> http://www.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/
>
> Why it matters to the marketing list?
> There are limited non-latin fonts which are distributed as open-source.
> It's important to populate the list of available open-source fonts for a
> language, as they can be made available on any Linux distribution. A
> graphical environment (such as GNOME) is made more appealing to the
> end-user if there are beautiful fonts available.
>
> Until now, Greek GNOME users had freefont (FreeSerif and FreeSans) as
> the only good quality proportional fonts for the graphical interface.
>
> All, these fonts were previously commercial and got recently donated.
> The licence process chosen was that of the Bitstream Vera fonts, at
> http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ initiated by the GNOME Foundation.

Wow, this is great! Congratulations on getting this donated.

Luis