[ubuntu-art] Re: Re-Bringup: FreeSans as default font?

[Denis Jacquerye]

On 5/1/06, Michiel Sikma <omega at avalanchestudios.net> wrote:
> To give my opinion: I believe that Bitstream Vera Sans is a very nice
> font, apart from some small kerning problems. Freesans is a more
> difficult to read font. As designer, my rationale is the structure of
> the font itself: Freesans has a smaller so-called "punch width" (which
> indicates how broad the letter is; larger broadness increases screen
> font legibility) and also a smaller "x-height" (the height of the
> lowercase x symbol in a font; the higher, the more legible a font is on
> a screen). Good screen fonts are Verdana, Bitstream Vera Sans, Lucida
> Grande, Myriad, Frutiger. I'd prefer seeing Bitstream in future Ubuntu
> releases, since it's proven itself to be a pretty good font.
>
> Regards, Michiel

DejaVu is Bitstream Vera with added glyphs, we are still in the
process of raising the quality of all added glyphs. This brings
Bitstream Vera based fonts to Latin extended, Cyrillic and Greek
script based languages. A few bugs from Bitstream Vera have been
fixed. We are also in the process of adding more OpenType features to
the fonts (diacritics placement, ligatures, alternate characters,
etc.).
It would be greatly helpful if you could suggest solutions to the
Bitstream Vera/DejaVu kerning problems.

Cheers,
Denis Moyogo Jacquerye