http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/96/
The Ubuntu system would be more enhanced if it had more sofisticated fonts with a nice contrast.

Every operational system has an unique "look and feel" thing... Ubuntu must acquire its.

[1658 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #96


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That said, can we ditch "sans" as the default font for Liberation yet?]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:47:56 +0000
I'd like to be able to disable anti-aliasing for certain sizes of fonts.

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Yep, this is very important, especially with CRT displays where antialiasing just makes small fonts look blurry. You can do it by editing the file:

/etc/fonts/local.conf (google it)

But I agree, a GUI option to do it would be fantastic.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:10:00 +0000
Some fonts are designed to be antialiased. These include most of the "Linux" fonts, such as the Bitstream and Liberation ones. Such fonts are not usually very well hinted, and look awful if antialiasing is off.

Other fonts are designed to be "hinted" (using the freetype bytecode itnerpreter), and should not be antialiased. These include MS Tahoma and the other corefonts.

Mixing and matching always produces a worse result than either extreme.

In my view (as a person who prefers clarity to smoothness), virtually everything should be 8pt Tahoma, (or Terminus, for monospace), with hinting enabled. Subpixel rendering should be off. Antialiasing should be off for normal fonts, but on above 15 pt.

This takes some work to get right - both KDE and Gnome control centers, also separately for Openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, gnumeric, konsole and kwrite. GTK1 applications are still weird. Could we have a global pref for this?

Richard

(email me if you'd like my help on settings)


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For now i settled for this config: http://www.sharpfonts.com/ with alle fotns on tahoma and the monospaced from liberation]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:28:25 +0000 I hope someone capable will note these if already haven't.

And while at it installing should be at least as snappy as in KDE 4.Graphic design would also be easier if one could sort fonts easier according the license and such but I guess this is something I need to beg from author of gnome specimen.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:40:40 +0000
In a default install, the only easy options I have are:

- blurry fonts with ot without (horrible) colour-fringing artifacts.

or

- jagged fonts (at least some of them)

This is the number one problem for me in Linux. I watch at the screen all day long. I need it sharp and clean.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:45:10 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:03:17 +0000
Here's a comparison:

http://watteimdocht.de/jan-nik/liberationdejavu.png

You can see that Liberation's native hinting (the newest version of course) is just as good as fonts like Tahoma.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:58:17 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:59:58 +0000
All in all, +1 for the liberation fonts in ubuntu. Best ones I've tried.]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:50:33 +0000 With just a note: I do not know anybody (family, at work) that likes font smoothing, but they all use corefonts which were designed for hinting (btw Vista blurs everything now and is quite the most awful font experience I've seen so far, so let's not blur everything either please).

Hinted fonts are awfull when smoothed, and maybe not hinted fonts could usable with smoothing (I don't like them personally). This implies settings can be done font by font, so defaults should fixed to get hinted fonts not smoothed and others preconfigured at once at the user choice.]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:20:38 +0000
It would also be nice to rid Ubuntu of the 50 or so fonts that are exactly the same...and the other 50 arabic fonts that no English-speaking person needs.]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:42:02 +0000 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:49:35 +0000
Only thing what am i always enabling is subpixel hinting, nothing else is necesary.]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:46:49 +0000
For example, I'm using msttcorefonts, and I have antialiasing OFF for Tahoma]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:44:43 +0000
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For example, I'm using msttcorefonts, and I have antialiasing OFF for Tahoma less than 8pt and Courier+Times less than 12pt. Also, I have now hinting enabled, but that wasn't so from the very beginning.

Now all seems good, concerning the fonts rendering, but what that was a hell, when I was complete newbie, and did not even know from what to start from (most of us even don't realize what fontconfig is).


Sure, DejaVu and Bitstream could also look really clear, if to pick good "initial" settings for them.]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:47:03 +0000
I'd rather we use original fonts...

Bytecode hinting is a problem due to patents owned by Microsoft, so I think it can't be enabled by default. If it can be enabled selectively, it might maybe be useful to enable it for some fonts (e.g. the Microsoft Core Fonts).]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:07:31 +0000 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:24:23 +0000 http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodythrower/399569494/]]> Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:05:47 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4924/]]> Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:25:28 +0000 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:20:37 +0000 Sun, 11 May 2008 10:08:15 +0000 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:29:23 +0000
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5396/]]> Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:50:53 +0000
Others are ok for me.
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