Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-18 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:36:40PM +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote: Although perfectly aware that this is a much subjective business, I am looking for best fonts, and would much appreciate your sharing of personal choices. This Wiki article [1] has some insight, but not sufficient to

[gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello everyone, Although perfectly aware that this is a much subjective business, I am looking for best fonts, and would much appreciate your sharing of personal choices. This Wiki article [1] has some insight, but not sufficient to satisfy my quest. For best printed output I have settled for

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Liviu Andronic: So, what font do you use for the User Interface? Happy with Bitstream Vera Sans myself. Clean, clear, and looks good. For fixed I use Courier 10-pitch. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread Gustavo Campos
That's not free, that's M$ stuff, but I'd suggest you to take a look, just take a look, at Segoe UI fonts. I Don't know any free fonts comparable to it, but there's a story of some guy who charged M$ for using his font as base for Segoe... I don't know if that font is free, or even if it exists,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
080417 Liviu Andronic wrote: Although perfectly aware that this is a much subjective business, ... Very much so ! ... I am looking for best fonts and would much appreciate your sharing of personal choices. I like New Century Schoolbook for variable spacing, with URW Palladio as a good

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Gustavo Campos: That's not free, that's M$ stuff, but I'd suggest you to take a look, just take a look, at Segoe UI fonts. Well, it's included in portage, and I paid $0 for it so.. Besides, the OP mentioned no requirement that the font must be 'free'. I was simply stating what I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread Gustavo Campos
Well, it's included in portage, and I paid $0 for it so.. Is Segoe UI really in Portage? At the last time I emerged corefonts it wasn't present, so I had to find it on the web =) And by free, I meant the really free free, you know =) I was simply stating what I use because I think it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Gustavo Campos: Well, it's included in portage, and I paid $0 for it so.. Is Segoe UI really in Portage? At the last time I emerged corefonts it wasn't present, so I had to find it on the web =) I dunno, I was talking about the Vera Sans. I was going to look for Segoe later.