Default fonts in Fedora
Steven Garrity
stevelist at silverorange.com
Wed Dec 10 19:52:09 UTC 2003
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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