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Re:Apple Menlo: Snow Leopard's New Console Font by dflock on Thursday June 11, 2009 @09:58PM (#654036)
The Droid family from Ascender, which Google commissioned for Android is uniformly excellent, renders well everywhere I've seen it and is Apache Licensed. I'm currently using 'Droid Sans' as a system UI font (on Linux) and 'Droid Sans Mono' for coding, terminals, etc... In fact I've just aliased the linux 'sans', 'mono', etc... to the appropriate Droid face.

More info here, including the link to the git repo if you want to check the fonts out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_fonts

these are in the Ubuntu repo's as 'ttf-droid' or you can do a straight download from here:

http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtes...

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Re:Apple Menlo: Snow Leopard's New Console Font by kevbin on Thursday June 11, 2009 @10:11PM (#654055)
I think Droid and Liberation are siblings, from the same designer & foundry. Liberation has more variations (italic, bold italic) and more "flourishes" (like in the uppercase Q, lowercase a and what not).
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