Default fonts in Firefox

[Edward H. Trager]

On Tuesday 2005.09.27 21:24:01 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2005, 10:43 -0700 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> > Given that this seems mostly subjective, and that there are often subtle
> > localization issues involved with changing fonts, let's defer the changes
> > until after the 5.10 release.  Naturally, discussion is still welcome.
> NOOOOO !
> please lets at least ship with a readable default, in hoary bitstream
> vera fonts were the defaults, dont hit our users in the face with a
> blurry default font...we should at least have some consistency and ship
> the same default as in hoary instead of introducing a regression here.

I agree 100%.  Bitstream Vera fonts are professionally-designed fonts. The
Gnome foundation worked to get them released for the benefit of the Open Source
community.  They look great and are very readable when used in the Gnome and
KDE desktops.  For readability, the Bitstream Vera Sans font should be the 
default for Firefox.

-- Ed Trager

> 
> and please dont touch the size settings you'll get a lot of upset web
> designers...
> 
> ciao
> 	oli



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