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Adobe Source Sans
Posted by vernon adams in
4 Aug 2012 — 3:27am
4 Aug 2012 — 3:27am
Where's all the posts/ discuss on Adobe's release of Source Sans?
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4 Aug 2012 — 2:50pm
Lecture room 5b.
Edit: This is a Discworld reference. $WEBSEARCH is your friend.
5 Aug 2012 — 8:21am
Well, here's one!
I think Paul did a great job, especially with the American gothics angle.
And kudos to Adobe, once again.
hhp
4 Aug 2012 — 2:51pm
Agreed, @hrant. The Eurogrot look is getting a tad naff.
5 Aug 2012 — 1:51am
Already much earlier did Adobe made a typeface open source, this was an early version of Utopia. It can be found searching the web for “adobe utopia latex”. However this version of Utopia was even further improved (hopefully) and expanded and is released under the name Heuristica/Evristika, the latter being the russian transliteration of its name.
http://code.google.com/p/evristika/
5 Aug 2012 — 7:09am
flooce - that jogged my memory big time :)
X11 still bundles Utopia, but it's not installed in the default X11 fonts. I'm curious if the original 'free' utopia release was just the fonts, or source files too, and might they still be still knocking around?
thanks
5 Aug 2012 — 7:56am
The original files provided by Adobe are, so far as I know, those listed at the URL http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utopia
Those fonts come installed with MacTeX 2012 (and I presume also TeX Live). When installed,
tells you where the regular is located.
5 Aug 2012 — 9:04am
Thanks. The files provided at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utopia are same as the original fonts donated from Adobe. First donated in '92, kept in 'free/not free limbo' for 14 years, and finally confirmed as free 2006. Or something like that.