Hi
Owen Taylor told (on the fedora-devel-list) that the Luxi/Nimbus fonts were the default for aesthetics reasons. I'd like to know what you think are the best fonts for the Fedora desktop. Is it Vera ? Nimbus/Luxi ? Any other free font ?
PS: If that's not the right place to ask, just tell me. I posted here because Michael K. Johnson suggested me to open a discussion here.
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Julien Olivier wrote:
Hi
Owen Taylor told (on the fedora-devel-list) that the Luxi/Nimbus fonts were the default for aesthetics reasons. I'd like to know what you think are the best fonts for the Fedora desktop. Is it Vera ? Nimbus/Luxi ? Any other free font ?
PS: If that's not the right place to ask, just tell me. I posted here because Michael K. Johnson suggested me to open a discussion here.
As they told you on devel list, Bitstream Vera fonts cannot be used as default, because of incomplete list of glyphs. Actually I have asked my brother which is a font guy to have a look at them.
behdad
As they told you on devel list, Bitstream Vera fonts cannot be used as default, because of incomplete list of glyphs. Actually I have asked my brother which is a font guy to have a look at them.
I thought there was a solution to this problem as Owen said that he hadn't tried to solve this because he preferred the Luxi/Nimbus combination. However, if there is no acceptable solution to the coverage problem, it's not worth discussing it.
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 19:06, Julien Olivier wrote:
Hi
Owen Taylor told (on the fedora-devel-list) that the Luxi/Nimbus fonts were the default for aesthetics reasons. I'd like to know what you think are the best fonts for the Fedora desktop. Is it Vera ? Nimbus/Luxi ? Any other free font ?
I have a 17" 1280x1024 LCD display (Hyundai Q17), I use size 9 Bitstream Vera Sans with subpixel smoothing, everything else looks worse (and I've tried lots of fonts, that's easy now that most apps just redraw themselves when you click :).
At size 9 Sans on my screen, I don't honestly see how anyone could say Nimbus or Luxi look better, just look at the "e" letter, but may be something is wrong with my settings.
Laurent
Perhaps someone could put together some comparisong screenshots? Side-by-side system fonts would be helpful for comparison.
I'd do it myself, but it will take me a few days to get to it - hopefully someone will beat me to it.
Steven Garrity
Laurent GUERBY wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 19:06, Julien Olivier wrote:
Hi
Owen Taylor told (on the fedora-devel-list) that the Luxi/Nimbus fonts were the default for aesthetics reasons. I'd like to know what you think are the best fonts for the Fedora desktop. Is it Vera ? Nimbus/Luxi ? Any other free font ?
I have a 17" 1280x1024 LCD display (Hyundai Q17), I use size 9 Bitstream Vera Sans with subpixel smoothing, everything else looks worse (and I've tried lots of fonts, that's easy now that most apps just redraw themselves when you click :).
At size 9 Sans on my screen, I don't honestly see how anyone could say Nimbus or Luxi look better, just look at the "e" letter, but may be something is wrong with my settings.
Laurent
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On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 19:52, Steven Garrity wrote:
Perhaps someone could put together some comparisong screenshots? Side-by-side system fonts would be helpful for comparison.
I'd do it myself, but it will take me a few days to get to it - hopefully someone will beat me to it.
I took screen-shots of the fonts preference window with Nimbus Sans, Luxi Sans and Vera Sans with/without sub-pixel smoothing (I have a laptop).
You can see the 6 screen-shots at the following address:
http://julien.olivier.free.fr/fonts
Julien Olivier wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 19:52, Steven Garrity wrote:
Perhaps someone could put together some comparisong screenshots? Side-by-side system fonts would be helpful for comparison.
I'd do it myself, but it will take me a few days to get to it - hopefully someone will beat me to it.
I took screen-shots of the fonts preference window with Nimbus Sans, Luxi Sans and Vera Sans with/without sub-pixel smoothing (I have a laptop).
You can see the 6 screen-shots at the following address:
I would say Vera is the one, but it should get even smoother... Greets, Marky
Vera has become my favourite font (also on Windows when I need it). However, it is a real pity that Vera Serif does not have an italics variant. Also, the difference between normal and bold is too vague. In a list with normal and bold items (eg. read/unread mails) the difference is hardly noticeable. Is anyone working on this?
kind regards Andre
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