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Re: Better default font
by Askrates on Tuesday 11/Dec/2007, @19:28

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I have quite poor eyesight, and I think the fonts on the Betas and RCS are quite hard to read. One of the first things I do after installing KDE is change the default font. In the spirit of breaking new ground, are there any plans to change the default font to something prettier/more readable?

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Re: Better default font
by Askrates on Tuesday 11/Dec/2007, @19:33

Oh, and Asian fonts tend to render poorly in default KDE as well :(

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Disable font hinting
by Flavio on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @00:04

Disabling font hinting when using antialias produces a much smoother font rendering much like OSX. Even Vera can look good without hinting.
Hinting can be disable in the KDE font settings or in your ~/.fonts.conf

I think distributions and KDE itself should consider this. It's almost 2008 and those lines made of a single pixel look like the 80s.

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Re: Better default font
by Bobby on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @03:16

I don't have the best eyesight either. That's why I always change the default font and it's size. I like and use Bitstream Vera Sans (font size 12) which seems to be fine for me. However Bitstream is not installed by default on openSuse. One has to install the package from the DVD/CD.
It would be nice to see better, more beautiful and readable fonts in the default setting.

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