Please replace the body text typeface of the spec

[eyalroz]

I suggest the specification document's body text typeface be changed.

The current typeface used is Liberation Sans. The main "merit" of this typeface is that it is metrically identical to Arial, which used to be the default sans-serif font in MS Office and other MS Windows apps. Arial itself is a bastardization of Helvetica; and both arte considered to be poor choices for body text font.

See, for example: Stop Using Arial & Helvetica

So, what can you use instead? I'm no font specialist, and don't remember many freely-licensed fonts off the top of my head, but you could try Open Sans, or Linux Biolinum if you want to stick with sans-serif. But you could also consider going serif, IMHO: This would improve readability when printied, and not hurt it, when reading the spec online - since the font size is not that small and people are likely to even zoom in a bit when reading - scenarios in which serifs are typically considered to increase legibility. Linux Libertine is an option, for example.

[franciscave]

There is already an issue #59 that addresses the question of whether or not to align the ODF TC editorial processes with those adopted more widely within OASIS. The question of what fonts to use in OASIS specifications should probably be agreed at an organizational level, and I note that the current OASIS Committee Specification template agreed in April 2025[1] specifies the main fonts as follows:

Font Face and Size: Documents SHOULD use one of the following fonts throughout the document: Helvetica Neue, Cambria, Arial, Times New Roman, Liberation Serif, or Liberation Sans. Consolas, Cambria Math, and Symbols MAY be used for specialized text. Unless otherwise specified, all text SHOULD be in 10-point font with a color of #000000.

[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1MjAPps0yGDdQlSldSPYQUo3xgXP6qErI

[eyalroz]

First, that list of typefaces sounds like quite a poor choice. I would guess that the basis for it was someone concatenating very old defaults of OpenOffice and MS Office, and adding Helvetica because Arial is known to be its bastardization...

Anyway, be it just ODF or all of Oasis, please improve the default. Even within this list - Liberation Serif or Cambria would be better choices than Liberation Sans (yet still poor choices).