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Re: Better default font
by Luciano on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @05:51
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Well, I didn't realize font fashion changed so rapidly.
Actually, I think fonts are chosen quite conservatively -- "Times New Roman" seem to still be a popular font, for example.
Cell phones are a special case, where horizontal space is not to be wasted (they tend to have tall and narrow screens).
Anyway, this is something KDE can't do much about -- I think it asks for a "sans" font, which the distros maps to their preferred font for the role.
And there are not many free fonts that can be used anyway.
The Liberation family does not even have hints (at the moment, anyway), and its Unicode coverage is not comparable with DejaVu. |
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Re: Better default font
by Ascay on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @06:11
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> Well, I didn't realize font fashion changed so rapidly.
Well, you can't argue much about fashion and style. For most people it's just a matter of acclimatization and not taste.
Nevertheless, two examples to compare:
Kickoff with wide letters:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce_4.0-rc2/konqueror.jpg
Lancelot with narrow letters (Ivan Čukić has generally a nice taste concerning GUIs imho btw):
http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/lancelot-2nd-shot.png
In my opinion the font in the Lancelot screenshot looks much more elegant and modern.
> Actually, I think fonts are chosen quite conservatively --
> "Times New Roman" seem to still be a popular font, for example.
You are talking about font usage in general, I'm talking about fonts for GUIs. Who uses Times New Roman in menus e.g.? Nobody I hope. :)
Times New Roman is quite ugly actually. It's only used so much because it is the default font in widespread applications like Word. Or for compatibility because every Windows and OSX installation has it.
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Re: Better default font
by mat69 on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @16:40
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Actually I like the Kickoff screenshot more because it's easier to read for me - more space between the characters.
Printed Times New Roman is not that bad, though I prefer the standard LaTeX font.
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Re: Better default font
by Peter V on Monday 17/Dec/2007, @08:35
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Hello, can you please tell how you got kde to look like this:
http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/lancelot-2nd-shot.png
Maybe a small step-by-step how to do that?? It looks very cool and I think more people would like that
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