NEWTYPOGRAPHY
Oxygen Font 0.1 is now released for testing purposes. The font still needs some tweaking; mainly to metrics, kerning pairs, and diacritic characters, but it should now be fit to fully test as a KDE system font for most European latin languages. The Cyrillic is still not useable, although it’s better than it was.
Oxygen Font 0.1 can be downloaded from Oxygen Font’s KDE repository. Please note this is not yet a finished font and is released only for testing purposes. Feel free to use and feed back.
 8pt @ 96dpi. Subpixel + Full Hinting |
 9pt @ 96dpi. Greyscale + Slight Hint |
 8pt @ 96dpi. Subpixel + Full Hint |
 9pt @ 96dpi. Greyscale + Slight Hint |
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IMHO it needs more hinting. In “8pt @ 96dpi. Subpixel + Full Hint”:
frogs (between “r” and “o”)
unique, unico (between “n” and “i”)
dunque (between “n” and “q”)
sketchy (less space between “t” and “c”).
However good job!
[...] OMG Ubuntu reported today that KDE’s new Oxygen font is now available for testing. As far as I’m concerned it’s at about 90% as far as usability is concerned, and for those of us in the west, there should be no issues with using it as a daily driver. Here is a little snippet from the official announcement. [...]
Please, can you make the reversed question mark sign? Check how will it appear in Georgia. Please, don’t make it like Cantarell (Cantarell is useless as a font in Spanish precisely because of its reversed question mark design).
¿. It looks like “¿”.
Sure. Will add to the to do list.
Both in 9pt @ 96dpi. Greyscale + Slight Hint
and
8pt @ 96dpi. Subpixel + Full Hint:
proxy (r and o look like they are too close together)