[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 97577] New: UI: Source Sans Pro, as Impress default font

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97577

            Bug ID: 97577
           Summary: UI: Source Sans Pro, as Impress default font
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.2.0.0.alpha0+ Master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: ux-advise
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: nemeth at numbertext.org
                CC: libreoffice-ux-advise at lists.freedesktop.org

Created attachment 122388
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=122388&action=edit
Liberation Sans and Source Sans Pro comparison

Impress uses Liberation Sans, as a default text font. It would be better to use
Source Sans Pro, because of the following advantages:

– more elegant for slides (nicer glyphs; bigger X-height; dots are dots, not
squares)
– more elegant Impress layout (see empty slides with “Click to add...” font
preview on the attached screen shots)
– full hinting (better uppercase text and i18n support, see attached
comparison)
– lots of different weights (Black, Semibold, Light, Extralight)

With the proposed patch Impress will prefer Source Sans Pro to Liberation Sans
in new documents. It's important, that this change doesn't modify the metric
replacement of the missing Arial font: that is still Liberation Sans (see on
the attached test presentation).

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