Fonts Re: how dumb is this idea?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

I like Georgia. It has lowercase numerals.

Didn't Redhat create a set of workalikes for at least the 'most important' fonts in the MS collection? "Liberation" or "libertine" or something like that?
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On May 24, 2014 1:09:01 AM EDT, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ​ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
>Easily my favorite MS product since OS2.
>
>In particular, *Georgia* and *Verdana* are a great pair of fonts,
>designed
>to complement each other as *text* and *Title*.​  I have a lot of
>respect
>for MS's Typographers last decade.
>
>(*It's not their fault what people abuse Comic Sans for*.  Yes, I liked
>the
>Carter-Cone "Lucida" family even better -- you see Lucida Bright in
>Scientific American now -- but that's not as widely available, so
>unsuitable for file interchange usage. Lucida Fax was great when it
>shipped
>with WinFax Pro!)
>
>​I have set my Gmail default font for HTML email (we lost that war,
>alas)
>to Georgia since it's ubiquitous in the XP-and-later Outlook/MSOffice
>world, and looks nice.
>
>> ​It is not free, but does not cost anything.​
>
>:-)   ​With fonts, that's good enough unless you're a purists, in which
>case interchanging with MSO is already unclean.
>
>​
>
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