Re: [Adonthell-general] Adonthell 0.3.6 beta

[Elena ``of Valhalla'']

On 2016-07-16 at 22:45:14 +0200, Kai Sterker wrote:
> It's an issue with the font we use in Waste's Edge. It's license is unclear
> (and the author couldn't be contacted), so it was dropped from the Debian
> package. So right now it falls back to a simple bitmap font that is ASCII
> only.

ASCII only and quite ugly / not very easily readable, IMHO

I've also (re-)played the version available in debian, btw, as soon as
it was available; I've started doing so with the idea to find issues
etc. but ended up thinking just of the story (and I had already played
it in the past). Will play again in a more QA state of mind :)

> I am currently looking for a different font to use. I will need to test a
> few and see how they feel, but one hot candidate is Cardo (
> https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cardo), which is (a) under the OFL, (b)
> contains a quite large subset of Unicode and (c) seems quite suitable for
> lengthy text.

reading the description of Cardo “Cardo is a large Unicode font
specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars,
medievalists, and linguists” made me think of junicode_, which has been
designed mostly for medievalists, covers quite a bit of (latin-based)
unicode and has the advantage of being already available in debian.

.. _junicode: http://junicode.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Elena ``of Valhalla''