Quoting Curt (cu...@free.fr): > On 2015-09-21, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday 21 September 2015 18:16:59 Curt wrote: > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_%28typeface%29 > >> > >> "Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of typefaces named after > >> its Swiss designer, Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger is a humanist sans-serif > >> typeface, intended to be clear and highly legible at a distance or at > >> small text sizes. A very popular design worldwide, font designer Steve > >> Matteson described its structure as "the best choice for legibility in > >> pretty much any situation" at small text sizes, while Erik Spiekermann > >> named it as "the best general typeface ever"." > > > > Sadly, it appears not to be available for Debian, or rather, in the Debian > > Wheezy repositories. > > It's copyrighted. You'd have to buy it (from Adobe, e.g.), I suppose, > if you wish to use it. > > Still, one of the best, if not the best, font in the world for > legibility, used everywhere from the Charles de Gaulle airport in France > to the German Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to Amtrak, is a > sans-serif font, contrary to what that other guy (who I think owns > Volkswagen stock) implied.
It's a very pleasing font for display, judging by the wiki page. I hadn't realised the NHS use it, and it would be interesting to compare it with the font that was designed IIRC in the 50/60s for UK Motorway signage (well, it started there, when they realised that Motorway drivers wouldn't be able to read fingerposts or the "bubbly"-reflective block capital signs of my childhood). It's also very legible in running text (deliberately printed a little large) in this Cancer Screening Programme booklet. However, as a coding-friendly font, I don't rate it. Unambiguity is essential here, as it legibility in fixed-spacing. Currently I find neep as legible as anything on screen. I was disappointed with the efont somebody suggested a while back. Neep is well-endowed wrt unicode glyphs, which helps. Also, bear in mind that I've never (knowingly) seen neep, efont, terminus etc rendered in ink as opposed to light. So 99.9% of the usages enumerated on the wiki page are irrelevant to this purpose (unless NHS staff have it as their screen font, which I doubt). Cheers, David.
