[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113538] Bundle and use open source Hebrew fonts by default

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113538

--- Comment #7 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz at technion.ac.il> ---
(In reply to Shai Berger from comment #6)
You could indeed cast the question as "screen vs print", but it's kind of
splitting hairs since, typically, serif fonts look better in print and sans
serif look better on screen.

But be the question put as it may, I don't see a reason for this choice to be
different for Hebrew than in is for English - where the default is Liberation
(serif) for Writer, and Liberation Sans for Calc. Your premise - that people
would rather like a screen-oriented font, which essentially means a sans-serif
font - could have applied to English/Latin languages as well. But the accepted
wisdom that users do expect to use Writer with a print-oriented font.

Of course, it is important to choose a font that looks well enough on screen as
well, rather than just in print.

PS 1: Microsoft had, for many years, used a Serif font as the default in MS
Word (Times New Roman), then switched to the interesting Calibri, a sans serif
font (and Cambria, a serif font, for headings).

PS 2: I have to object to the use of the term "marketing", as LO is gratis and
libre, so it's never traded and thus not marketed.

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