Re: Standard fonts.

[raster redhat com]

On 31 Jul, Dan Kaminsky shouted:
->  I've just decided the *single ugliest* part of X is, undoubtedly, the
->  butt-ugly fonts.  I think we have two choices for GNOME:

1. the bitch about X fonts isn't really the fonts - X handles scalable
fonts quite ok. its the API to drawing fontsthat sux, the font
specification method and the lack fo alpha channelling leading to lack
of anti-aliasing. Get the freefont and sharefont packs from sunsit and
u'll fund a pile of scaleable fonts - you can even install standard
Type1 fonts and use them... I do.

the font issue is a low-level code issue not one of fonts themselves.
there are plenty of them. Just NVER used fixed (helvetica always turns
out nice.. :) )

->  
->  1)  Use the one piece of code Microsoft appears to have released
->  semi-publically:  Microsoft Web Fonts.  Verdana, Georgia, Times New Roman,
->  and Arial are *good* fonts, and are in fact quite a bit more attractive than
->  the standard fonts I've seen on any other OS.
->  
->  2)  Find a font designer to provide us with high quality serif, sans serif,
->  non-proportional, and special case fonts.
->  
->  Yes, this is a GNOME issue.  Yes, these need to be truetype fonts.
->  
->  I think this is absolutely critical, without a doubt in my head.
->  
->  

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