On 15-04-2014 00:55, Isarra Yos wrote:
Deemed better? Better how? But that's what I'm saying - if the configuration is optimised for dejavu sans, nimbus won't be better at all even if it is a better-engineered font (doubtful, though, it being an arial clone from what I understand). Letters will be too close together, sizes and hinting will be off, and that's not even going into the whole rabbit hole of messing with what people are used to, which seems to be the single biggest determining factor as to what they find easy to read once the basics are covered...
The purpose of a font stack is to let the browser use the website's font preference. So "but Arial is already the default on Windows" is not a valid retort; we _want_ the browser to use Arial, even is it is _not_ the default.
Nimbus fonts come from URW++, a respected foundry, and their font are quite well engineered. They released some of their fonts under a free licence for the GhostScript project, but I do not know if the fonts are still maintained (but I suspect so, as GhostScript has active development).
It all boils down to preference. Of cource people are used to how things look, but change is not always necessarily a bad thing.
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