ms-ttf-corefonts is still a required package for linux layout testing, even though the package's download location is now somewhat strange: Linux distributions use downloading script to download it off of an old sourceforge repo, since MS does not distribute these fonts any longer.
On Linux, we should move to alternatives with clearer licensing.
Serif alternatives for Times New Roman: Tinos, DejaVu Serif
Sans-serif alternatives for Arial: Arimo, Ubuntu, DejaVu Sans
Tinos and Arimo are metrics compatible with Times New Roman and Arial, and it sense may be best suited for layout tests.
Related to issue 772116.
ms-ttf-corefonts is still a required package for linux layout testing, even though the package's download location is now somewhat strange: Linux distributions use downloading script to download it off of an old sourceforge repo, since MS does not distribute these fonts any longer.
On Linux, we should move to alternatives with clearer licensing.
Serif alternatives for Times New Roman: Tinos, DejaVu Serif
Sans-serif alternatives for Arial: Arimo, Ubuntu, DejaVu Sans
Tinos and Arimo are metrics compatible with Times New Roman and Arial, and in that sense may be best suited for layout tests.
Related to issue 772116.
Owner: sergeyu@chromium.org Status: Assigned (was: Available) Summary: Stop using ms-ttf-corefonts and use Arimo and Tinos (was: Consider moving away from ms-ttf-corefonts and use Arimo and Tinos)
Labels: -Pri-3 OS-Linux Pri-2 Owner: thomasanderson@chromium.org Status: Started (was: Assigned) Summary: Stop using ms-ttf-corefonts (was: Stop using ms-ttf-corefonts and use Arimo and Tinos)
Comment 1 by behdad@google.com
, Nov 20 2017