KDE Font Oxygen ‘Fit for Testing’

By , Published January 15, 2012

Oxygen font for KDE

KDE’s very own font is coming along nicely with its developer releasing an updated preview version for download.

The release announcement calls version 0.1 of Oxygen ‘fit for testing… for most European latin languages’, but that Cyrillic support is ‘not useable’, and ‘diacritic characters‘ – letters with ‘accents’ – ‘still need tweaking’.

Oxygen Font 0.1 can be downloaded from Oxygen Font’s KDE repository.

Related posts:

  1. KDE Font ‘Oxygen’ Available for Testing
  2. Meet ‘Oxygen’ – A Font for the KDE Desktop
  3. The new Ubuntu font – how to download it
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  • Anonymous

    Ah, thanks. I love the Oxygen font.

  • https://launchpad.net/~exeleration-g Exeleration-G

    The world can be a crazy, crazy place, yo.

  • Stijn Verwaaijen

    I like it. Not sure if it beats Ubuntu though…

  • Anonymous

    To beat Ubuntu?
    it probably needs more then that

    • Anonymous

      Your comparing a desktop environment to an Operating system.

      • Anonymous

        Well considering this is about the KDE font we’ll assume he’s talking about the ubuntu font

        Oxygen vs. Ubuntu

        • Will Kromer

          PWND

        • Stijn Verwaaijen

          I was, of course… And the answer is ‘no’, the Ubuntu font is (much) better.

          • http://envygeeks.com Jordon Bedwell

            False. Ubuntu’s font is horrible.

  • Anonymous

    What is the world coming to when a font makes the headlines. Wow!

    • http://twitter.com/rub3nmv Ruben Martinez

      Fonts are important

      • Ian Hex

        Word to that. Typography is VERY important. There’s a reason why they’re called type FACES, it’s a crucial aspect of how an interface presents itself to the user. 

        Have to add, as well, I really quite enjoy this typeface, excellent work indeed. 

        • http://twitter.com/zzecool zzecool

          Design in general is VERY important and fonts is a part of it.

          :)

        • Anonymous

          Double that. First time I installed linux on my pc (it was like 6 or 8 years ago) I was shocked by fonts. “Is it really should look like that? Maybe I missed something during setup?? I can’t work with that fonts, because they hurt my eyes!”. Fortunately, few years later Ubuntu brought to us awesome fonts and user experience.

      • http://twitter.com/melhiore Marcin Wojcik

        yes, they are. Poor fonts in KDE put me off this desktop environment…

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5KG7JAE7WPBQI2PCQL4HYPAKPI Bassboy Anon

           What? KDE font rendering has been top notch for a long time. And you get the same fonts for both KDE and Gnome.

          • http://twitter.com/melhiore Marcin Wojcik

            OK, there must be something wrong with my screen/eyes/settings than…

          • Nikolaus Waxweiler

            I think your eyes and screen are probably fine, it’s most likely the settings :) KDE renders the fonts like how fontconfig tells it they should be rendered. The default font rendering on Ubuntu is pretty nice, but maybe you’re interested in http://www.infinality.net‘s FreeType patches.

        • http://twitter.com/rub3nmv Ruben Martinez

          I’ve been using Aller and Ubuntu font for some time and they look great on KDE.

        • Anonymous

          Yep, I’m staying away from KDE thanks for it’s ugly fonts.

    • http://twitter.com/Rezildans Das Volkan

      Font is the anchorman of an OS. That’s why Apple’s Mac OS X (Myriad Pro) looks the sexiest.

      • https://launchpad.net/~cscarney ~cscarney

        Apple uses Myriad Pro in their advertising material, but the OS X system font is, and always has been, Lucida Grande.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IH4OBL3AGQV2WPP2OGHZRRKG64 Helder

    I’m a Gnome guy but I can’t resist quality fonts. Good to see that now every Linux project wants to have one. I’ll try this to see how the character support for Portuguese is going ( it’s pretty much cedille and diacritics) …

  • http://yourethemannowdog.com Shasta McShasta

    It’s awesome seeing the wider open source community truly being concerned with how they present their UI now.  This is that extra bit of polish that is really making the Linux desktop a sight to be behold, no matter what display manager is used.  The attention to detail is a far cry from the Clearlooks or KDE3 themes we had to use only a few years ago.

  • Anonymous

    What’s with the kerning?
    Does anyone else see “regu lar  1 23″

    • Anonymous

      It’s KDE. It can’t be helped.

  • http://www.BaloneyGeek.com Boudhayan Gupta

    Cantarell throws both of them out of the water. And the absolute best out there is Myriad Pro.

    • Anonymous

      Personal Opinion: Cantarell reminds me of Comic Sans. It’s a lot better than it, but I’m still not very keen on it.

    • http://profiles.google.com/bwat47 Brandon Watkins

       IMO the ubuntu font > all.

  • http://profiles.google.com/deanhowell2 Dean Howell

    Here is a nice centerfold showing how nice this font looks…

    http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/01/kdes-new-oxygen-font-gets-naked-for-the-camera/

    Enjoy!

  • http://twitter.com/heikkiket Heikki Ketoharju

    fvwm font anyone?

  • Kanwar Plaha

    Nice font and I’m using it right now. However, Roboto beats both Oxygen and Ubuntu fonts :)

 
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