Richard Brown skreiv:
I've thoroughly investigated this over the last months, and while there are a number of things we could do with regards to our font rendering libraries and such, these settings (eg. subpixel hinting) are often a case of 'personal taste' and the display in use (LCD, TFT, CRT, and what resolution)
What are the current (default) settings in openSUSE? Since almost no one uses CRT monitors any longer, at least enabling subpixel rendering should be a safe and wise choice. (You write ‘subpixel hinting’, but hinting is a completely different feature than subpixel rendering. I’m not sure what the best default setting for hinting is, and it may depend on the fonts used and on personal preference. But surely subpixel rendering (of type RGB, as this is what’s used by ~100% of monitors) should be enabled by default?)
This pretty much has led me to a shortlist of 4 font families
Liberation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts DejaVu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts Droid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_fonts Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Sans_Pro
One alternative is Oxygen Sans (and its companion, Oxygen Mono), which is the default font in KDE (Plasma) 5: ,----[ https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Oxygen ] | The Oxygen typeface family is created as part of the KDE Project, a libre | desktop for the GNU+Linux operating system. The design is optimised for | the FreeType font rendering system and works well in all graphical user | interfaces, desktops and devices. `---- Look at just about any screen shot of the official KDE announcements to see how it looks. Example: https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.3.0.php Regarding the fonts you mentioned, I agree that Liberation is a bad choice. I used to use DejaVu as my UI font, but now find its characters to be too wide and not very elegant, especially with larger font sizes. I have also used Droid Sans, but found its characters to be much too narrow (that makes it an excellent font to use on smart phones and tablets, though). So my preference would be Oxygen, Source, Droid and DejaVu, in that order. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer E-mail: karl@huftis.org Jabber: huftis@jabber.no -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org