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== Description == | == Description == | ||
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Hannes von Döhren created this font to be a much hipper, serifed replacement to the universally dreaded Comic Sans. It's a hip font good for titling and creative treatments, such as lettering in comic strips. | Hannes von Döhren created this font to be a much hipper, serifed replacement to the universally dreaded Comic Sans. It's a hip font good for titling and creative treatments, such as lettering in comic strips. | ||
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| [http://www.hvdfonts.com/ | | [http://www.hvdfonts.com/ HVD fonts] | ||
| TTF | | TTF | ||
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== Caveats == | == Caveats == | ||
On 2010-12-21, HVD clarified that the licensing is actually CC-BY 3.0 Unported, and that the other terms in Readme.txt were old and should have been removed (and will be removed). | |||
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== Additional information == | == Additional information == | ||
Latest revision as of 15:09, 21 December 2010
Foreword
- Frames that use this style are redaction tips. Please remove them from your page once they are no longer necessary. Do the same for the lorem ipsum bits.
- Remember the more complete and accurate the information you add is, the more likely a font is to be packaged and widely used.
- Do not forget to update the page categorization once the font status changes.
A free alternative to Comic Sans
Packager
Correct the proposal and replace it with the final package summary.
Correct the proposal and replace it with the final package summary.
Description
Hannes von Döhren created this font to be a much hipper, serifed replacement to the universally dreaded Comic Sans. It's a hip font good for titling and creative treatments, such as lettering in comic strips.
Packager
Correct the proposal and replace it with the final package description.
Correct the proposal and replace it with the final package description.
Characteristics
| Homepage | Format & features | License | Review reference | Koji page | pkgdb page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HVD fonts | TTF | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 | ④ | ⑤ | ⑥ |
Packager
- Once a package has entered the review stage, add a Review reference ④ such as 181994. You can reference this wiki page in your review request as additional information. Please do not forget to CC fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com on your bugzilla ticket.
- Once a package has been approved, add the corresponding:
- Koji page ⑤ pointer (for example dejavu-fonts).
- pkgdb page ⑥ pointer (for example dejavu-fonts).
| Style | Faces | Scripts | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sans | Serif | Other | R | B | I | BI | Other | Latin | Greek | Cyrillic | Other | ||
| Variable | Monospace | Variable | Monospace | ||||||||||
| ✘ | ✘ | ||||||||||||
Caveats
On 2010-12-21, HVD clarified that the licensing is actually CC-BY 3.0 Unported, and that the other terms in Readme.txt were old and should have been removed (and will be removed).
Packager
Take care of those items and remove them from the page once they've been dealt with.
Take care of those items and remove them from the page once they've been dealt with.
Additional information
Fonts in Fedora
The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.
The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.
Packager
You MUST replace the Category:Font wishlist tag with:
You MUST replace the Category:Font wishlist tag with:
- Category:In-progress fonts for a font being worked on, but not available in Fedora yet. Typically in packaging review stage.
- Category:Packaged fonts for a packaged font, available in Fedora.
- Category:Rejected and retired fonts for a font we decided not to package after review, or removed from current Fedora repositories for some other reason.