ubuntu font

These are great days when one can actually observe a real expansion in the adoption of various Ubuntu pieces or Ubuntu itself.

Months ago, the Ubuntu Font Family was added to Google Webfonts directory (for web-sites to easily benefit it) and has started to be used by a huge number of web-sites reaching an impressive count, "this week the total to date reached over one billion requests".

The Ubuntu Font family has gained a good-looking shape and landed in Ubuntu 11.10 with its Monospace flavor.

Although Ubuntu Mono (different from Ubuntu Mono icon theme) landed in Oneiric couple of days ago, just now, an update set the Ubuntu Mono as the default Monospace font, consequently it is being used by GNOME Terminal, Gedit, etc.

The default size is 13.

Two weeks ago, Ubuntu Design team announced and released a new development BETA version of the long-awaited Ubuntu Monospace font, available via a private PPA.

The PPA has just been updated and provides now Ubuntu Monospace font 0.80 version RC 1 and a new separate flavor of the font, Ubuntu Arabic BETA.

Ubuntu features quite a professional font, Ubuntu font, but lacks a monospace flavor that is to arrive in the current developemnet Ubuntu release or in a future one.

What is the state of Ubuntu Monospace font?

First of all, the actual work on Ubuntu Mono font started in August 2010, and, perhaps this long period of time triggered some misunderstandings/concerns or "When will we see Ubuntu Mono on our Ubuntu machine?"-related questions.

Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal, was launched last week, and, just before UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) , the rumors are starting to appear, enhancing our curiousity :What will be in Oneiric?

Until next week when we will see the way Oneiric will take, we can only speculate, but...

An interesting long-awaited "but" is the Ubuntu font monospace flavor.

After seeing how cool the Ubuntu font looks on our desktop, we thought to put a little test on it and we could say say one thing :it rocks!!!

Look at the picture and see how awesome is this font on Nokia 5800 XM (s60v5).
If you want to install it on your symbian phone just go to usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family, copy the regular version, create a folder called Fonts on your desktop and drop in it s60snr.ttf, s60ssb.ttf, s60tsb.ttf, S60ZDIGI.ttf --you obtain this by renaming the same ubuntu-font 4 times.