That's a good point about LibreOffice, for sure. In that case I'd
agree that Arial, Times, and Courier should be substituted by the
Liberation family.
But what about the other possible substitutions? Bitstream Charter,
Luxi Sans, Baskervald, Palladio, and Gillius, in particular.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2
Metrics is far more important than looks for a replacement typography
for a simple reason: If metrics are different, then documents length
won't match.
A trained user (or at least trained enough to tell the difference
between two serif or sans serif fonts) will know that Arial looks
different and w
Yeah, although that doesn't necessarily refer to that problem. 3 of the
first 10 results were about bad fonts on google earth, how many might be
about wine apps...
Only one of them was about ugly fonts in firefox, and it was on Hardy =]
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On 20 October 2011 20:1
As a quick aside: http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+ugly+fonts
returns over 1 million results.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Peterson Silva wrote:
> Is this "ubuntu has bad fonts" really "a thing"? I mean, the Joe user can't
> barely tell Times New Roman from Arial oO
>
> I just found this
Is this "ubuntu has bad fonts" really "a thing"? I mean, the Joe user can't
barely tell Times New Roman from Arial oO
I just found this curious, but I agree with everything, and we should focus
on polishing fonts and everything --- it's an aspect that makes the system
look slick and all. I just fo
[Apologies if this is a duplicate message; I sent this first with an
email address other than the one in my Launchpad profile.]
I'm not positive that desktop typography falls within the scope of
Ayatana, but this list is my best guess.
Currently in /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf (and fo
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