On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 8:08 AM, Noah Davis
On Friday, October 26, 2018 9:01:28 PM EDT hellcp@opensuse.org wrote:
Hi,
Originally suggested 3 or so years ago by Richard Brown on this list, and rejected with huge backlash (but who am I to ignore controversial topics).
Default fonts are a part of distribution's identity and to some degree help to show off beauty of the desktop. Our website branding is based on those in particular, so it would be nice to follow that up with desktop part.
I have been using Source Sans Pro for a long time on the desktop, and Source Code Pro in terminal. They work very well in those usecases, even though I'm using smaller than usual font size in both scenarios (I am not using serif fonts enough to judge that part, it just never comes up).
I would love to see Gnome desktop also following that trend, as it's using Cantarell, despite YaST-Fonts and other default font utilities.
Also I am already sorry to openQA guys, I just cannot stop suggesting changes that break tests :/
Speaking of controversial and fonts, how about default subpixel rendering set on lcddefault and slight hinting? There are some pretty cool examples from freetype folks about that stuff [1, 2]. I would love to see cleaner and better looking fonts in openSUSE ;)
LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world
[1] https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html [2]
https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/text-rendering-general.html#the-default-> lcd-filter-for-subpixel-rendering-has-been-changed
Do you also think other DEs like KDE Plasma and Xfce should be changed to use Source * Pro fonts? I think we should use our branding fonts in the installer, but I'm not sure how I feel about changing the default fonts of DEs.
Yes, I believe so, I don't see major drawbacks of that. LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org