Default fonts in Firefox

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 04:06:32PM -0400, Edward H. Trager wrote:
> 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.

Er, isn't it already?  It's what my Firefox is using.

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 - mdz