[mythtv-theming] A new theme on the way...

[Christopher Meredith]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Christopher
> Meredith<chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The incredible skinning work done by folks for
>> projects such as XBMC prove that it's just a mater of time before
>> people step up and provide something open to the community.
>
> Nobody is going to force you to use it.  :)
>
> You should probably know, however, that *every* acclaimed skin for
> XBMC (Aeon, Aeon Stark, MediaStream, etc) uses proprietary fonts.
> They either include them illegally (Mediastream, original Aeon) or
> have you download them from illicit rapidshare links (Aeon Stark).  So
> in fact, those skins are *not* using any of the "half million free
> fonts..."  Because the truth is, the quality and especially the
> kerning on most free fonts suck.  So my options are leave it to the
> user to procure decent fonts in a legit way, or distribute them
> illegally...
>
> ... and that's not how I roll.

I have found the MgOpen fonts to be very good

http://www.zvr.gr/typo/mgopen/index