On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Klaus Bitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Honestly, I don't understand why everyone loves small fonts. (Especially > designers, as it seems.) I'm no designer, I'm a user. This has nothing to do with aesthetics. If you have a monitor that offers high resolutions, or you don't have a lot of exposure to Windows, then you probably don't realize how much larger fonts can seem in Ubuntu (and GNOME doesn't help, as there is a lot of padding in most themes). > When reading e.g. articles in firefox, the first I do is hit Ctrl+Num_Plus > several times to increase all font sizes. > I have good eyes, no glasses, but it's just much more comfortable to read > larger fonts. As far as I know, changing GNOME's default font sizes will only affect Firefox's interface (dialogs, toolbars, options, etc) - websites won't be affected. You probably need to reduce your screen's resolution or font DPI. In daily work, when I need to reach for an application's menu, I don't want > to concentrate too much, either. > Therefore, using smaller fonts for the sake of saving some disk space might > degrade the ubuntu user experience badly. > What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with conserving disk space. We're talking about having a sane default font size to conserve screen real-estate (very important if your monitor can't go beyond 1024x768, which is not as rare as you may imagine, even in 2008). I also noticed that fonts seem to become even more enlarged when using "slight" hinting.
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