On 08/31/2012 11:39 AM, Marguerite Su wrote:
Ok, we'll gave it a try. And another question: We just set WQY Micro Hei as the default Chinese font for our distribution openSUSE 12.2. (That's why we care about its technical details...Actually I'm also a wqy contributor who makes few Micro Hei online. Nice tool BTW. Which one among wqy series do you think has the best performance for screen display like menus, toolbars etc? I myself think everyone of them is outstanding among Chinese fonts(I'm a YaHei hater too), but we do have to choose the best...so "editors' choice", please?
which font looks the best is a matter of personal preference. As you are aware of, it varies quite a bit among the community, and evolves with the popular display resolution on the market. I personally have been using micro hei as my default *desktop* (not just CJK) font for almost two years. Fedora has been using bitmaps (bitmapsong/zenhei sharp) as the default since F8; Ubuntu ships Micro Hei in the live CD since 9.10 (if I remember correctly). Micro Hei has a modern look, and is very compact. I like it a lot mainly because it has better Latin glyph design than Dejavu (I use en_US mostly, and I don't like some kerning pairs in Dejavu [1]). So the first thing after installing a system is to set Micro Hei as the desktop default font. On a low resolution screen, BitmapSong/Zen Hei Sharp remains my first choice, in which case I will put Latin fonts (which has hinting) like Dejavu/Droid in front of them in fontconfig. hope this helps. Qianqian [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24515
Marguerite
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