On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 19:18 +0100, Florian Zeitz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alex Jones schrieb: > > Hi List > > > > I propose two changes to the default font settings in Ubuntu. > > > > 1. Disable hinting so that fonts maintain their original shape > > 2. Enable colourised anti-aliasing, with David Turner's patches > > applied (pre-made packages available at > > <http://diego.aureal.com.pe/fonts/> courtesy of Diego Escalante) > > > > After an infinite amount of fiddling with my monitor's settings, the > > best result was just to set them to default and use the filtered > > unhinted fonts. > > > > Many people complain that using unhinted fonts makes them look blurry > > and fat. I suggest to them that given 10 minutes getting used to > > unhinted, hinted fonts look eroded, out of shape, and unreasonably > > harsh. Any affinity towards the shape of the hinted (distorted) fonts > > could be resolved by finding a font with the actual shapes they want. In > > many people's opinion, Bitstream Vera Sans is a beautiful font with > > beautiful shapes, shapes which are entirely inconsistent with hinting > > enabled at small sizes. > > > > Please take a look at two screenshots of an email I have linked for > > your analysis. > > > > * RGB Unhinted: > > <http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/5867/filteredunhintedsm0.png> > > * Greyscale Hinted: > > <http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/8472/greyscalehintedfq8.png> > > > > Thanks for reading! > > As long as it is configurable I don't really care what is default, but > personally I have the impression that the hinted version looks a lot better. > Actually I debootstraped a feisty today and the first thing I noticed > was that the fonts looked really ugly. After a while I realized, that it > was because I had hinting turned off. > I also tried the David Turner patched debs a while back and they had > some very strange effects for me (red pixels on font boarder). > > I still have the impression that none of the options for font rendering > currently available comes even near to Windows defaults (That may be a > matter of taste though).
It's really not that complicated! Windows uses bytecode-hinted RGB fonts for its "ClearType" mode. That's it! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFFkrjj0JXcdjR+9YQRAqeQAJ4j+bdU6+9SYdL7m0CjZml0i/d5sQCggYRH > W7nYai8v3h8AI036Ekh36hM= > =mEbC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
