On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 10:55 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 09:09 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > > On 07/29/2010 07:43 AM, Emily Dirsh wrote: > > > > > > I started making up the type samples for font comparison, but I kept > > > thinking that something interactive would be more useful, so I made this > > > <http://www.fightingcrane.com/emily/fedora/fontfight/> instead. Everyone > > > go and try it out so we can pick a font already. :) > > > > Awesome Emily, this is what we we needed > +10 > > > > > Here's the full url: > > > http://www.fightingcrane.com/emily/fedora/fontfight/ > > > > Looking comparatively, I can say I *do* prefer Cantarell, it is more > > spaced, having "air to breath"... compared with it Droid looks to me > > crammed, busy. > > I also like Cantarell shapes, think they are more elegant, giving us a > > more special, individual look - compare for example the glyph for "8" in > > both fonts. > > > I also prefer the Cantarell shapes (by a large margin) but on the flip > side, on my F12 while Droid Sans is hinted perfectly well (just like > DejaVu Sans is), Cantarell is blurry. The English is so so, but Greek > and Russian really suffer a lot (LCD display, subpixel smoothing, full > hinting). Although, by playing with it in gimp it seems like autohinter > is for some reason off for Cantarell... > So freetype-freeworld was at fault. Removing it saved the day, but now my usual DejaVu governed desktop looks a bit worse... Martin
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