On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In their release notes they claim variuos fixes to the font rendering > "pipeline" AND they include Bitstream Vera fonts (opensourced) I've been using the Vera fonts for ages, since they were opened by Bitstream and GNOME, and they are a lovely collection of typefaces.
For those who do not know, the Vera fonts are similar to Vendana et al. on Windows: they are designed as on-screen fonts that are readable and legible at low resolutions. Bitstream released the fonts as Free Software â under the auspices of the GNOME project[1] â so you can use PfaEdit/FontForge[2] to edit them and add your own glyphs to your hearts content. There are three typefaces in the Vera family: Sans, Serif, and Sans Mono. I personally do not like using sans-serif typefaces as a terminal font, monospace or no, so I use FreeMono[3] for my terminal face. Vera Sans and Vera Serif go together beautifully with FreeMono, making quite a pretty desktop. [1] http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ [2] http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/ -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
