[ubuntu-art] Liberation Fonts

[Salane Ashcraft]

I just looked at them... not so good for a system font. Any suggestions
then? I think something open source that looks like Segoe UI or Myriad Pro
would be great...

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Conn <subpsyke at eircom.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Ashton <cogneato at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried Liberation Sans? I think it's a great choice. As I
>> mentioned earlier, Firefox in particular, when changed from within
>> preferences, looks much more crisp and clean. I don't have much experience
>> with the other Liberation fonts, though.
>
>
> Unfortunately I don't think it's a great choice as a system default. To my
> mind (and it's a simplification), Bitstream Vera Sans (a.k.a. Sans) =
> Tahoma, while Liberation Sans = Arial. The Liberation font are excellently
> suited for Word documents, but the Sans variety in particular is  not suited
> as a font for applications. This is especially noticeable if you use
> "Slight" hinting (which I believe may become the default hinting method for
> Intrepid). Purely IMHO, of course.
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