[opensuse-factory] Re: MS-fonts don't perform well as defaults

On Tue, 7 May 2013 17:13, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar...:

Quoting Graham Anderson :

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On Monday 06 May 2013 15:18:33 colAflash@gmx.net wrote:

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2. "Arial", "Times New Roman" and "Consolas" perform bad. For example Consolas doesn't gives me the dots above the german "Ö" when using sizes smaller then 10pt.

Aye, in addition to flaws with common european characters, Consolas is *very* heavily hinted, this makes it quite horrible sometimes using some of the default options available with the freetype version we ship, needs a patched freetype to look decent but it still displays line height poorly.

For this reason I switched to Adobe Source Sans Pro:

As sad as it is, even "Droid Sans Mono" is better than "Consolas" "Consolas" without "ClearType"(MS)-hinter is no good at all. "Droid Sans Mono" is part of the google-droid-fonts package. For most apps I use "DejaVu Sans" for sans, "Linux Libertine" for serif, and "Droid Sans Mono" for monotype, but that is my personal preference. - Yamaban.