On Jan 28, 2008 8:13 AM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > Well I agree with everything except the above paragraph. I switched over to the Liberation ones when they were announced to see how they were.. and everytime I have switched back.. I find myself moving back to the Liberations ones in a day or 2. However, I realize that deep down inside this is probably a religious choice on my part. And any advocation of what fonts would look better without large-scale empirical evidence would not be good. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
