Jeremy Perry (jeremy.perry@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > Here is a quick rundown. > > Things I know or are my opinions as a designer: > - Deja Vu Sans is a very vide font, and in many cases causes "ugly" ui because of the amount of space it consumes. Screen space is at a premium and this font makes the issue worse by being one of the widest out there. This is a big pain point in places like dialogs and skinny window titles. > - Deja Vu Sans is known to be tricky to render on screen - some letters just have awkward spacing and widths no matter what you do (bowls on d's seem compressed, etc). I blogged about this as it relates to Fedora: http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/jperry/2009/10/30/when-rendering-text-on-screen-every-pixel-counts/ > - it looks old - compare it to any other modern UI. > - The bold is really quite bad and amplifies the issues above. > > Things I dont know as fact but suspect about Deja Vu Sans > - Wasn't designed for UI use specifically. UI fonts are not made for documents, or vice versa. > - Hasn't been as rigorously crafted and tweaked by fontographers for best fitting and spacing OK. I did some quick comparisons which can be seen at: http://notting.fedorapeople.org/font-tests/ if people are interested. Billl -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
