What's a good font?

[rey meustrus]

For redistributing fonts, that really just means packaging the font for someone else to use. It doesn't count if you send a Word document that says "please use X font if you have it;" the person loading it presumably has their own license to use the font so it's OK (they do if it's a Windows font and they're on Windows, in which case they have the font). What wouldn't be allowed is giving people a Powerpoint with embedded fonts, because they could then use the fonts themselves regardless of whether they have a license themselves. I don't think an image is wrong either, or else what kind of license would we be receiving? A license for only us to ever see the font? "Oh, you're not licensed to see what this font looks like...I'll just be taking those memories now!"

As for ubuntu-title, I guess it has some similarities but it's definitely used properly as a title for an operating system. Just the "ubuntu" part as displayed in the preview works pretty well as its used. I don't think it was ever intended as a general purpose font, if it was ever intended to have any glyphs at all besides those in "ubuntu".

 

[mawk]

As a disclaimer, never use these for anything that isn't deliberately low-res (and in fact, never use that second one for anything ever). Scaled-up pixelfonts are still (in my experience) less comfortable to read than regular vector ones.