Hi, >> I think I had seen somewhere on one of the wiki pages, a specific >> recommendation for a font for print, was is not Vegur?
"Vegur" is used for the logo, but the kerning had to be adapted etc for it. It is far from ready to become an interface or printing font as it lacks glyph coverage (even relatively basic latin symbols like á, ä etc. do not work and is badly kerned. It still is at the begin of its development. The fonts that print best and look best on screen without subpixel hinting are unfortunately all Microsoft fonts (Arial, Tahoma, Verdana etc.)—they put lots of money in their fonts and even if find the shapes themselves of all of these fonts (except for Georgia and Sylfaen) pretty awful, the effort Microsoft put in the fonts shows. >> I just checked on my system (Mageia 1 -> a Mandriva fork), FreeSans is >> not installed. How is the Liberation font family for print? That's odd. There's probably a package, but still... I don't like Liberation Sans to much, because instead of being a Helvetica clone, it mimics Arial (which itself only mimics Helvetica) and shares some ugliness with it. I admit, this is font geekery and probably not very interesting to you. So, yes, it is usable as an interface and also as a printing font. Anyway, what I meant when I spoke about printing was, how well screenshots with a certain hinting/anti-aliasing print (anti-aliasing basically means smoothing via grey pixels at round parts of a glyph or, nowadays, parts of neighbouring colour cells [1]). If you leave sub-pixel rendering while taking screenshots, the screenshots will print with odd colour artefacts (see image 4 on the right side of [1]). Using grey-only antialiasing prevents this but looks noticeably worse on screen. Also note, that it's very easy to have bad font hinting on free systems (hinting is the process in which font outlines are subtly manipulated to fit certain rasters at smaller sizes), because hinting using the hints that a font itself provides [2] is a patented technique and is therefore usually disabled on Linux systems. It's relatively easy on the other hand to disable hinting completely and have slightly fuzzy but truer to form fonts. To do this, click on "Details" in the Gnome appearance panel and choose either "Greyscale" smoothing or "Sub-pixel rendering" (for day-to-day stuff, use subpixel rendering, for screenshots "greyscale") and then choose "None" under "Hinting". > You can find them all here: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE/Doku/Allgemein/Screenshots > > I also made those screenshots under Mageia 1, I didn't set a specific font. > It just says "Sans" > or "Sans Bold". For one set of screenshots I changed from a 10 point font to > 12 points, to see > how this would look like. For the font rendering I chose "Best contrast" > inspite of me having a > flatscreen monitor. "Sans" is an alias for "Deja Vu Sans" on almost an Linux system today. "Serif" usually is the alias for "Deja Vu Serif". Now, another personal thing: I don't like this font (that is, the sans-serif version, the serif one is okay, just not for interfaces). Sorry for blabbering this much about fonts. Astron. [1] see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_rasterization [2] as opposed to the font engine determining entirely on it's own how to hint -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
