Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Documentation: Web fonts for kernel documentation

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Thu Nov 02 2023 - 12:42:08 EST


On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 1:01 PM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For the font choices, we settle down on IBM Plex Sans (sans-serif), IBM
> Plex Mono (monospace), and Newsreader (serif). All these fonts are
> licensed under OFL 1.1 and can be distributed alongside the kernel docs.
> We have also considered to use Söhne [1] instead, but because it is paid
> font, it is concluded that such font is non-free [2] (and by
> implication, distributions must patch the kernel to not use it).

If we are going to do something like this, then it could be nice to
consider the ones that `rustdoc` picked, i.e. Fira Sans for headers,
Source Serif 4 for text and Source Code Pro for code.

Cheers,
Miguel