Le Lun 28 janvier 2008 15:38, Mark a écrit : > I have Firefox 3 now on Fedora rawhide and i really disliked the > default fonts That happens > so i played a little with it till i got acceptable > results. Thanksfully our font selection is large enough you can find alternatives (at least for latin) now > As you can see in [2] is that the fonts are looking just better. No we can't. I'm afraid that "looking better" is largely subjective when talking about fonts. In particular people exhibit a huge bias in favour of whatever font style they're used to. Take any decent modern font, force a user to use it exclusively for a month, and he'll systematically prefer it afterwards in tests. (hey, some people even ended up liking Luxi *shudder*) So the only thing you've proved is you're used to a style similar to Liberation Sans, probably Arial. Had you spent the time to accustom yourself to Fedora defaults you'd be finding Liberation Sans terrible. Given that Liberation and DejaVu are about similar quality-wise, and some people will hate one and others the reverse, other considerations like encoding coverage and upstream reactiveness prevail, and right now DejaVu wins those. P.S. Though you've still kept Serif as default Firefox family, which *is* an ass-backwards Firefox default we should change, since current screens do not have enough resolution to display satisfying Serif fonts. P.P.S. Likewise Mozilla developpers decided at some time monospace should be scaled down for no particular good reason, and site authors are still fighting this error back with CSS hacks P.P.P.S. Also your screenshot exhibits the fugly color fringing of subpixel hinting. It may have been your misguided choice, or the effect of rawhide currently ignoring user settings to use grayscale only. In any way it's not the fonts fault. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
