Fonts

[Jelle de Jong]

jmak wrote:
> On 7/7/08, George Brooke <solar.george at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:16:54 +0200
>>  Jelle de Jong <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote:
>>
>>  > jmak wrote:
>>  > > Hi,
>>  > > In order to produce a real high quality desktop environment every
>>  > > little detail counts, including fonts. There is an absolutely high
>>  > > quality font family that has been created for Goggle, called Droid.
>>  > > Ubuntu has been negotiating with Goggle to completely open-source
>>  > > them. If they succeed, the font family will be used on Ubuntu as
>>  > > default system fonts. They are mac quality fonts and look great on
>>  > > xubuntu too. If the negotiations succeed, we should also use them as
>>  > > default system fonts. Download and try them out. From here:
>>  > >
>>  > > http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender
>>  > >
>>  > > jmak
>>  > >
>>  >
>>  > Just curious but what's wrong with the liberation-fonts?
>>  >
>>  > Why don't we use them?
>>  >
>>  > https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
>>  >
>>  > http://damieng.com/blog/2007/05/17/red-hat-releases-liberation-fonts
>>  >
>>  > Kind regards,
>>  >
>>  > Jelle
>>  >
>>
>> There's been some discussion on the art mailing list and as a user
>>  (from the screen shots) I really can't see that either is hugely better
>>  than the other.
>>
> 
> Look at the differences, in terms of resolution, clarity and screen
> space economy.
> 
> http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/3581/fontsyh5.png
> 
> jmak
> 

I have no idea what i am comparing sans and droid are general terms. 
Droid is a name for a collection of fonts and Sans is a type of font 
that has different actual font-set as possibility.

But the Sans screen is more clearer for me, the letters are sharper and 
not so thick as the other screen. But this can be just a setting, like 
anti aliasing etcetera.

Kind regards,

Jelle