On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Robert Munteanu
Thanks for the pointer, I somehow assumed that the SourceSans fonts supported this.
Only truetype and cleartype fonts support hinting and kerning... .ttf/.otf suffix doesn't mean it's a true truetype font.... If you use the wrong font, and the hinting technology will make sans-serif look like serif since it cuts and blurs the font edges.
Out of curiosity, is there a simple test to see if a font supports sub-pixel hinting?
You can check it out with fontforge autohint command. but usually google search is much faster. by the way you can use fc-match -s sans-serif to see which font is used as sans-serif in your system. if there're missing characters in the first font, it will use the second font for the missing characters. We Chinese font tweakers use this technology to display english with a font and Chinese with another in fonts.conf. sometimes if you mess up your .fonts.conf. You may assign a serif font as the default sans-serif. Hope it helps Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org