Default fonts in Firefox

[Tom von Schwerdtner]

On 9/27/05, Danilo Šegan <danilo at kvota.net> wrote:
> Today at 21:24, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > and please dont touch the size settings you'll get a lot of upset web
> > designers...
>
> Seconded.  Default Firefox fonts are "sans-serif" and "serif", and you
> can see what they resolve to using "fc-match" from fontconfig (it's
> not built by default, but it's as simple as gcc `pkg-config --libs
> --cflags fontconfig` once you track fc-match.c down :).
>
> For instance, on my Breezy setup:
>
> $ fc-match serif
> NimbusRomNo9L-Regu.pfb: "Nimbus Roman No9 L" "Regular"
> уторак, 22:12 : danilo at avet : ~/пошта
> $ fc-match sans-serif
> NimbusSanL-Regu.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
> уторак, 22:12 : danilo at avet : ~/пошта
> $ fc-match monospace
> NimbusMonL-Regu.pfb: "Nimbus Mono L" "Regular"

On my breezy Colony 4 install:

[ ~ ]
tvon at lorax > fc-match serif
VeraSe.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Serif" "Roman"
[ ~ ]
tvon at lorax > fc-match sans-serif
Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"
[ ~ ]
tvon at lorax > fc-match monospace
VeraMono.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" "Roman"

(and fc-match came with fontconfig)

-Tom