Font Feedback for Xenial

glenn opdycke-hansen glennoph at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 15:36:54 UTC 2016


my comments.
I tried your suggestion.  I was unable to find "fonts-noto-mono", though.
Also, 9 it a bit large for my tastes.  But it looked ok.

-glenn


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:25 PM Sean Davis <smd.seandavis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone!
>
> In case you haven't seen, the font we've been using for years (Droid Sans)
> is being deprecated in favor of "Noto" [1].  We're considering the switch
> to "Noto Sans 9" as the new default font going forward.  We'd like your
> feedback!
>
> To take it for a spin, follow these steps:
> 1) Install the "fonts-noto-hinted" and "fonts-noto-mono" packages
> 2) Go to Settings > Appearance > Fonts. Change the default font to "Noto
> Sans", "Regular", "9"
> 3) Go to Settings > Window Manager > Style.  Change the title font to
> "Noto Sans", "Bold", "9"
>
> Then just go on and use your computer as you normally would.  It's not
> substantially different, but we'd like the feedback nonetheless.  Reply to
> this list or swing by #xubuntu-devel to let us know your experience.
>
> Note:  While the font size is indeed changing from 10 to 9, the actual
> height (and thus the overall size) of the fonts is almost identical.
> However,  if the font size feels too small or otherwise not legible enough,
> please give us feedback about that too.
>
> Thanks!
> Sean (bluesabre)
>
> [1]
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-February/039159.html
>
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