On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 08:06:52PM -0600, Jon Trulson wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I made some experiments about possible > > replacement for the default user interface > > font in CDE. > > > > I gave Roboto font a try (this is the new > > font for the Android phones), and it > > looks acceptable to me even without XFT > > and antialiasing. > > > > Here are the screenshots: > > > > http://saper.info/files/cdesktopenv/screenshot/roboto/roboto-dtlogin.png > > http://saper.info/files/cdesktopenv/screenshot/roboto/roboto-desktop.png
Quite a while ago I experimented with the helvetica and courier fonts from Adobe that are available as part of the ghostscript packages (gsfonts-x11 on debian). http://marutan.net/pics/CDE-20120530.png https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/ImprovingFonts/ (the instructions on using these fonts are quite possibly out of date now) That's a particulaly good font at that pixel size, but like nearly all the bitmap fonts I've seen if you change the px size a bit they often end up looking ropey again. But as for changing the font, I think we need to stick to a default that is as widely available as possible, and let distro packagers choose fonts that are the best available on each system. Peter -- Peter Howkins peter.howk...@marutan.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
