Suggestion: Use Liberation fonts as default in Firefox 3

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Tue Jan 29 06:42:16 UTC 2008


On 2008/01/28 20:09 (GMT) Ian Malone apparently typed:

> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

>> Arial will pass away like Helvetica did eventually.

> Helvetica has passed away?

Bitmap fonts have passed away from systems using only xft & fontconfig.
Helvetica on Linux is/was a bitmap font.
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/font-helvetica.html#bitmap

Helvetica isn't really gone of course, because Liberation Sans and Arial are
so difficult to distinguish from it that as long as the latter two live on,
most of us won't know any difference.
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