On 2008/10/21 18:14 (GMT+0700) Rob Schumann composed: > Christian Montoya wrote on 20-10-2008:
> > http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2008/06/26/better-css-font-stacks/ > Back in September 2006 I wrote a piece that reached some similar > conclusions to that above > <http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/fonts-web-typography/60/> Neither of those take into account the recent and current states of FOSS fonts. It would be nice to see yours updated to take into account: 1-DejaVu is a continually developed and better hinted superset of no longer developed Bitstream Vera that has replaced Vera in most Linux distros for several years now. An installation of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 w/ JRE package on WinXP results in 21 DejaVu*ttf files being added to \WINDOWS\Fonts. 2-The Liberation font suite was developed to function as an alternative to installing the Microsoft Core Web Fonts package on Linux. Its single metric equivalent serif (Liberation Serif=Times New Roman), sans-serif (Liberation Sans=Arial/Helvetica) and monospace (Liberation Mono=Lucida Console/Courier New) components are available either by default or as an option with installation of most recent and current Linux distros. 3-Linux fontconfig provides a font stack for fallback. For purposes of this thread, I've made available three examples from major distros: Fedora 10 http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/45-latin.conf-fc10 Mandriva 2009 http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/45-latin.conf-mdv2009 openSUSE 11.1 http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/suse-post-user.conf We have been told in a (IIRC) Novell Bugzilla comment by the fonts team leader Mike Fabian that openSUSE's order within its alias file was set primarily dependent on font quality, particularly in the areas of charset coverage, byte code and hinting. Contrast that to the other two, which leave x-height pretty much a non-issue, seen by the separation between DejaVu Sans and Verdana in both files. -- "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry." James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
