On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 14:00 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> > And why the hell are you still using Luxi Mono, anyway? that thing went >> > out with the ark... >> >> I'm not the person you are posing your question to, but I use Luxi Mono >> and can give you an answer: >> "Because it is a wonderful serif mono font. Can you suggest me an >> alternative? It looks like mono => sans nowadays." > > I'm a big member of the 'fonts are subjective' bandwagon, but I'm > _really_ surprised that anyone would consider the Luxi fonts to look > better than the DejaVu ones. DejaVu is just a far more polished font > set, which is why it was chosen by all major distros to replace Luxi > years ago. You're literally the first person I've come across who seems > to prefer the appearance of Luxi. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, > I'm just surprised =) > Here's another one, if you like to :-) I've been a big fan of Luxi fonts from the days of RedHat 8.0. They make my day when I look at the terminal or glance through a code snippet. I did even contact Mr. Chuck Bigelow to find out any possibility of licensing Luxi fonts under an open source license, when Fedora decided to drop them. Today I use a locally built RPM (source files grabbed from Xorg website) with a custom fontconfig file. I must say, it's all a matter of preference :-) > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Cheers, Rajeesh http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
