Re: [Freetype] Comments on quality

[David Turner]

Hello Artur,

Artur Zaprzala a écrit :
> 
> David Turner wrote:
> 
> >I generally simply avoid them and use better fonts (e.g. the Lucidux
> >font family, the MS Core ones without "Comic Sans"). There are also
> >fonts that FreeType's Postscript hinter doesn't render too well too,
> >but this will be improved as time passes.
> >
> >Improvements tend to be slow and difficult because any algorithmic
> >change routinely break the rendering of certain fonts while improving
> >others.. :o(
> >
> >
> >Note: I'm using 2.0.6 exclusively on my laptop and home machines,
> >      _without_ the TrueType bytecode interpreter and the result
> >      is very pleasant as long as you avoid the ugly fonts..
> >
> 
> So the solution is to know which fonts are buggy and which are good and
> use them. Is there some kind of authoritative guide that would free
> every user (and distribution makers) from examining and selecting good
> fonts?
>

Not really, though maintaining this information on a web page would be
a worthy project. Would someone volunteer to this task. For now, I'm
using the following fonts on my Linux systems:


   - Andale, Arial, Verdana and Georgia from Microsoft.

     Note that my machines are Debian systems, and that I installed
     the "msttcorefonts" package on them. On installation, it
     automatically downloads the fonts from Microsoft's site,
     displays the required legal disclaimer, and installs them
     on the machine. All of this absolutely legally !!

     Andale is used in all text editors that I use..
 

   - Courier 10 Pitch for X Terminals, using the "tiny" size  

     BitStream Charter is used for window titles. The Lucidux
     fonts from XFree86 4.0 (renamed Luxi in future releases
     I believed) are also sometimes used in certain
     applications


As I said, this is without the TrueType bytecode interpreter, and
with LCD-optimized rendering, i.e., my /etc/X11/XftConfig file has
a line that says:

  match edit rgba=rgb;

at the end..


Hope this helps,


Regards,

- David


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