[KDE Dot News]
 faq
 flatforty
 contribute
 subscribe
 configure
 search
 rdf
 main
 parent
 thread


Re: Better default font
by Vladislav on Tuesday 11/Dec/2007, @19:55
what about Liberation fonts from Redhat?
  Related Links
 ·   Articles on KDE Official News
 ·   Also by Vladislav
 ·   Contact author

Thread Threshold:

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whomever posted them.
( Reply )

Re: Better default font
by logixoul on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @00:48
Well, I have some gripes with Liberation, as compared with DejaVu.

- at 7pt bad kerning is apparent
- it's designed to be metric-compatible with fonts from the Windows 98 era... which were changed in Windows 2000, and then again in Vista, becoming closer and closer to today's DejaVu (except for the mono variant). So, well, Liberation brings back bad memories ;)
- it has an all-around weirdness, like how the capital R is super wide, or how diagonal strokes are blurry and disproportionally fat... see attached

All of this is with antialiasing on (smoothness), subpixel hinting off (clarity), and hinting style full (sharpness).
I've heard stuff about uncrippling my freetype, but this never worked...
Click to download attachment A.png
5KB (5614 bytes)
[ Reply To This | View ]
  • Re: Better default font
    by nobody a.k.a. idiot on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @11:24
    That's the hinting screwing everything up. (IMHO the Liberation fonts all look awful though, especially the Mono font.. completely unusable)
    The solution for better font rendering lies in display technology. Hinting will always destroy the way how the font is actually supposed to look.
    I've seen the XO-1 in grayscale mode (200 dpi apparently) and fonts look awesome on that machine.
    Right now I run my Desktop at 1600x1200 (@100HZ :-) on a 19" CRT without hinting and it looks alright. I'm having a hard time to find a LCD replacement for this Monitor though. A 20" screen at a resolution of 1920x1200 would be nice but I guess that's not going to happen (soon and at an affordable price).

    So the magic words for "good" looking fonts are DPI, PPI, pixel density, dot pitch and so on ..but NOT hinting. :-)
    Click to download attachment desktop.png
    165KB (169574 bytes)
    [ Reply To This | View ]

 
The Fine Print: The previous comments are owned by whomever posted them.
( Reply )
  "Feature freeze means that everyone has a bad feeling when they change something, almost nothing more." -- Stephan Kulow
KDE®, "K Desktop Environment", "KDE Dot News", "got the dot?" and the KDE Logo® are trademarks or registered trademarks of KDE e.V. in the European Union, the United States and other countries. All other trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the poster. The rest: Copyright © 2000-2008 KDE e.V. for The KDE Project. For further information or comments on this site, please contact the Webmaster.
[ home | post article | flat forty | subscribe | search | rdf ]