Google Releases New Open Font

From	Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject	Google Releases New Open Font
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Followup-To	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Message-Id	<pan$e8f28$71ce54df$2db4deca$e398211c@linux.rocks>
Date	2025-12-20 14:16 +0000
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Google has released a new open-source font:

<https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Google+Sans+Flex>

What does it look like?  Here is a comparison, using
LibreOffice, between my favorite font, Liberation, and
Google-Flex-Sans:

https://i.postimg.cc/CxxyV51y/logsffont1.png

Not bad!  In fact I believe that I tend to prefer it
over Liberation Sans, but with LO I usually employ a
"serif" font.

But how does it perform with Unicode?  Check:

https://i.postimg.cc/BnnWGb6s/logsffont2.png

It seems to have good Unicode coverage as well.

What do YOU think?  (Do you even think at all?)

Installing it is simple.  Just copy to "~/.fonts"
and execute "fc-cache -r."  That's all.

Distro lackeys, however, will need to search for
their pretty "button" that says "Font Install"
or other such DE bullshit.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


-- 
Gentoo: the only road to GNU/Linux freedom and perfection.

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Google Releases New Open Font Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-12-20 14:16 +0000
  Re: Google Releases New Open Font Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-12-20 11:27 -0500
    Re: Google Releases New Open Font Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-12-21 14:30 +0000
      Re: Google Releases New Open Font Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-21 14:52 +0000
        Re: Google Releases New Open Font Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-12-21 16:04 +0000
          Re: Google Releases New Open Font Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-21 19:49 +0000
            Re: Google Releases New Open Font The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-21 20:05 +0000
            Re: Google Releases New Open Font Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-12-22 01:10 +0000
              Re: Google Releases New Open Font Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-23 23:13 +0000
            Re: Google Releases New Open Font Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-12-22 07:25 -0500
      Re: Google Releases New Open Font c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-23 04:49 -0500
        Re: Google Releases New Open Font Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-12-23 11:19 +0000
          Re: Google Releases New Open Font "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-26 22:13 +0100
            Re: Google Releases New Open Font c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-26 23:14 -0500
              Re: Google Releases New Open Font "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-27 21:59 +0100
                Re: Google Releases New Open Font The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-27 23:33 +0000
                Re: Google Releases New Open Font "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-28 14:44 +0100

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