https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56346
--- Comment #58 from Michael Zajac <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #57) > (In reply to comment #41) > > (In reply to comment #37) > > > Autonym (which will by definition never be as good as a native font like > > > Arial on Windows) > > > > I don’t understand the logic of this. Arial is hardly a great typeface > > anyway. > > Don't confuse design with legibility. Arial is the default sens-serif on > Windows, and renders *very* well on Windows. Autonym renders *very* bad on > Windows, because the font (and its source FreeSans) were never desigend with > Windows in mind, and therefor lack any hinting. Sure, the design of a typeface doesn’t matter as much if your system distorts the character shapes to fit a pixel grid. As higher-resolution displays are becoming common, screen hinting is going away and good font design is starting to be considered good font design. Anyway, the immediate fix is to import hinted character outlines from a better free font. Yes, easier said than done, but there’s no reason it couldn’t match Arial’s quality in any particular OS or browser. > > > A simple fix for much of this would be to embrace installed fonts, and push > > Autonym to the bottom of a font stack that includes the default sans-serif > > fonts on the various platforms. I wonder if, indeed, “font-family: > > sans-serif, autonym;” would work to make this font the fallback’s fallback. > > Ideally, it should only be rendering text that would show up as tofu. > > Ideally. > > I doubt it. Windows usually uses the first available font in the font stack > and > sticks with it, and revert to its default unicode font if it can't find a > glyph > (usually Lucida Sans Unicode). I think it might be more complicated than that. MSIE 6 ignores fallbacks for individual characters missing from a font, but I understand that newer versions have improved on this. As far as I know, Firefox uses its own font choice and rendering engine. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
