https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220814 jharmon@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | ------- Comment #44 from jharmon@novell.com 2006-11-29 10:24 MST ------- (In reply to comment #38)
I just had an interesting discussion with Cornelius about this. In my opinion, the activation of the bytecode interpreter and use of full hinting gives us really crisp, clear, fine default fonts. I see hintslight as giving blurry, chunky text, and plain characters appears demi-bold.
It is just the opposite for me.
So 'good' or 'bad' are subjective terms (as Mike already said), Joe, can you describe how you see the fonts in terms other than good, bad and (in)correct, because your perception isn't communicable with these to someone (Mike, yself) who subjectively perceives hintfull as 'correct'.
Hmmm, I though that I did explain it but I will try again. I am not arguing about the crispness of the fonts. What I am arguing is that in evolution the bold font does not appear uniform in thickness or in spacing with the default set to hintfull. Changing it to hintslight corrects the spacing and uniform thickness issue. The other issue was the same one that was outlined in comment #39 but was addressed for the non-bold font by the attachments in comment #37. Personally I like the fuzzier fonts like we have in SLED, but it is really not that issue that is being argued. It is the non-uniformness in spacing and thickness with the fonts that is the issue for me.
In Joe's most recent examples I agree that with hintsfull, bold text in the email header pane appears too closely spaced and the same text is more pleasing with hintslight. However the plain script making up the majority of the UI appears blurry and demi-bold to me so I am willing to accept the look of the bold text.
Joe: I guess you are using 'Sans Serif' throughout here? Mike: Could it be that the hinting of the font used for 'Sans Serif' is better at plain script than for bold?
-- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.