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So check this out 😄

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I made the suggestion of of Adobe Source Sans Pro (and Source Code Pro for monospace). (I was on vacation and using my phone, and I think I deleted the post accidentally, but David saw it.) These fonts are designed for user interfaces, and look really good on screen. It's the first thing I personally install on any new Linux install.

They are free software, developed on Github. You can download the fonts via the releases tab on Github:

https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro
https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro

They are not in Debian/Ubuntu, but if I remember right it was a license issue early on that was changed. (They are in Fedora FWIW.)

Another advantage is that they support a large character set, including more "obscure" accents, Greek, and Cyrillic, so people who aren't using English still get to use the font! The Chinese/Japanese/Korean font was developed along with Google and is the same (or nearly the same) as Noto Sans CJK, and the other non-Latin Noto fonts are a good match, so South and Southeast Asian languages would look good too.

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source sans pro light + Normal + blue is absolutely gorgeous !

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I made a wordmark with Ubuntu and Clear Sans fonts. 😃 See:

I followed the 2 color scheme of Ubuntu MATE wordmark, which is in-turn is derived from Ubuntu GNOME wordmark.

Ubuntu GNOME wordmark:

Ubuntu MATE wordmark:

However, the budgie-gray color from our palette (#404552) isn't that distinguishable from black like that of Ubuntu MATE. And note that I didn't make the Budgie wordmark bold like GNOME and MATE. That's coz Budgie isn't an abbreviation like the others and I've not seen Budgie stylized as bold by upstream Solus. But, the resulting Budgie wordmark doesn't really stand out in the final output. 😟

Anyway, I pushed the source svg files (ubuntu-budgie-wordmark-source.svg, ubuntu-budgie-wordmark.svg, ubuntu-budgie-wordmark-light.svg and ubuntu-budgie-wordmark-preview.svg) to our assets repo. When we finalize an official font later, we can rebase the wordmarks to that font. ☺️

Related resources:
Ubuntu GNOME's brand assets repo
Ubuntu MATE's artwork repo

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Well, I updated the wordmark and went for bold Budgie! 😁 The bold version by @Udara-U3 was already in use on our website and I think it looks better. So, I just decided to update it officially. See commit: UbuntuBudgie/assets@ef0eb3b

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What about this Fonts ? check this out..

• https://github.com/theleagueof/raleway
• https://www.google.com/fonts
• https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/glacial-indifference
• https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/corbert

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suggestion from Alexander Browne via G+ - Source Sans Pro from Adobe - according to wikipedia debian does approve of the license its released under.

For any suggestion here we need to visually see how these fonts look i.e. take HEXcubes example above and change the font for the "budgie-remix"

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I realy like https://github.com/theleagueof/raleway!

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Here I have created budgie-remix Logo using some different Fonts...
Just take a look at that, and let me know about your opinions..

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Comfortaa+1

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The font shouldn't be too fancy, coz it's not just the wordmark we're using the font for. The whole desktop, apps and pretty much all the text elements in the distro'll use this new font. So, we've to select something that'd be comfortable to use for daily work. ☺️

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from the above ubuntu (light) fonts and source sans pro are the obvious choices. Havent tried to install the source sans pro fonts in budgie-remix to see how they are usuable on a day-to-day basis.

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So why should we use the same font for the Wordmark and Desktop ?
It' should not be like that, because as remember Ubuntu Gnome or elementary os using Droid Sans for their Desktop.But Not for the Wordmark. Wordmark is a Logo, But not Iconic that's it.

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I also agree that the wordmark font does not need to be the same as the desktop/UI font. The logo might want to be more visually interesting, while the UI font should be functional. That said, I don't think they have to be different.

One idea is to use two different fonts, one for each word. Another idea is to use the Ubuntu font to show the Ubuntu heritage. Combining those ideas, here's one suggestion with "Budgie" in Source Sans Pro bold and Remix in Ubuntu light:

I think titlecase looks more polished, and that the hyphen isn't needed in a standalone form, but the fonts work either way. Here's a version following those conventions:

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@abrowne I'm not aware of a .deb package for these fonts. Have you found a .deb to install these easily? If not - we'll need package these correctly.

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No, unfortunately not. I've been downloading the Github archives and
manually installing the fonts. I had thought about attempting a package,
but I'm a linux noob. I'm interesting in helping if it would be useful.

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@abrowne https://github.com/abrowne I'm not aware of a .deb package for
these fonts. Have you found a .deb to install these easily? If not - we'll
need package these correctly.

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From @abrowne's description, Source Sans Pro looks interesting.

One idea is to use two different fonts, one for each word. Another idea is to use the Ubuntu font to show the Ubuntu heritage.

That's how Ubuntu GNOME does it! 😃 See:

I think titlecase looks more polished, and that the hyphen isn't needed in a standalone form

The reason it's styled budgie-remix in lowercase is to indicate the unofficial flavor status. Once it goes official, budgie-remix'll get rebranded to Ubuntu Budgie. Then we can have Title Case! ☺️

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@HEXcube

The reason it's styled budgie-remix in lowercase is to indicate the unofficial flavor status. Once it goes official, budgie-remix'll get rebranded to Ubuntu Budgie. Then we can have Title Case!

Aha, that makes sense ;-)

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Anyone for Cantarell? Default font used by GNOME.

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Solus and hence upstream Budgie desktop has Clear Sans as the default font. It's an open source font designed by Intel and made available under Apache 2.0 license. See the font's homepage. However, it's not on Debian repos yet. 😟

For the monospace font, Solus uses Hack. See the announcement on G+. This one is available on Debian as fonts-hack-ttf package. ☺️

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Ubuntu Budgie (17.04) terrible ubuntu-based font...
Will need to transfer all changes manually from Solus for a better experience.

Solus Fonts

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OBE - 19.04 using noto-sans

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