[gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

[gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello everyone,

Although perfectly aware that this is a much subjective business, I am
looking for "best" fonts, and would much appreciate your sharing of
personal choices. This Wiki article [1] has some insight, but not
sufficient to satisfy my quest.

For best printed output I have settled for either Computer Modern or
Palatino, through LyX (LaTeX). For Terminal I am quite happy with
Terminus. But I am not very satisfied with the User Interface font. I
am currently using Verdana size 8, under Xfce, with anti-aliasing
enabled. However, I would much like to use a high-quality LCD display
font, that would look good with anti-aliasing disabled (I already have
-bindist for media-libs/freetype).

So, what font do you use for the User Interface?

Thank you in advance,
Liviu

[1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts#Emerging_the_necessary_packages
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

[darren kirby]

quoth the Liviu Andronic:

>
> So, what font do you use for the User Interface?
>

Happy with Bitstream Vera Sans myself. Clean, clear, and looks good. For fixed 
I use Courier 10-pitch.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

[Gustavo Campos]

That's not free, that's M$ stuff, but I'd suggest you to take a look,
just take a look, at Segoe UI fonts.

I Don't know any free fonts comparable to it, but there's a story of
some guy who charged M$ for using his font as base for Segoe... I
don't know if that font is free, or even if it exists, but it may be
worth to take a look at =)

If anyone knows a free font comparable to Segoe, I'd be pleased to be
aware of =)))

And terminus is so f*ck*ng awesome I'm actually using it as my
interface font in xmonad =)

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:55 PM, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org> wrote:
> quoth the Liviu Andronic:
>
>
>  >
>  > So, what font do you use for the User Interface?
>  >
>
>  Happy with Bitstream Vera Sans myself. Clean, clear, and looks good. For fixed
>  I use Courier 10-pitch.
>
>  -d
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>  - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

[Philip Webb]

080417 Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Although perfectly aware that this is a much subjective business, ...

Very much so !

> ... I am looking for "best" fonts
> and would much appreciate your sharing of personal choices.

I like New Century Schoolbook for variable spacing,
with URW Palladio as a good alternative; for fixed spaces, Luxi Mono.

HTH

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

[darren kirby]

quoth the Gustavo Campos:
> That's not free, that's M$ stuff, but I'd suggest you to take a look,
> just take a look, at Segoe UI fonts.

Well, it's included in portage, and I paid $0 for it so......
Besides, the OP mentioned no requirement that the font must be 'free'.

I was simply stating what I use because I think it looks good. 

-d
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

[Gustavo Campos]

>  Well, it's included in portage, and I paid $0 for it so......

Is Segoe UI really in Portage? At the last time I emerged corefonts it
wasn't present, so I had to find it on the web =)

And by free, I meant the really free free, you know =)

>  I was simply stating what I use because I think it looks good.

Damn good IMHO!

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

[darren kirby]

quoth the Gustavo Campos:
> >  Well, it's included in portage, and I paid $0 for it so......
>
> Is Segoe UI really in Portage? At the last time I emerged corefonts it
> wasn't present, so I had to find it on the web =)

I dunno, I was talking about the Vera Sans. I was going to look for Segoe 
later. Thanks for the tip on terminus as well. I haver just tried it in my 
konsole and it looks great.

> And by free, I meant the really free free, you know =)

Yeah, I know ;)

> >  I was simply stating what I use because I think it looks good.
>
> Damn good IMHO!
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

[Gustavo Campos]

>  I dunno, I was talking about the Vera Sans. I was going to look for Segoe
>  later. Thanks for the tip on terminus as well. I haver just tried it in my
>  konsole and it looks great.

Ohhhhh I see! Sorry for that, I really understood you were talking
about the Segoe!!

And terminus is just awesome, I'm using a really small size
(CONSOLEFONT="ter-112n") at my framebuffer console, which runs at
1280x1024, it makes a really big space for typing, while leaving every
single char completely readable, it's beautiful!

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

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Hello

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:36:40PM +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Although perfectly aware that this is a much subjective business, I am
> looking for "best" fonts, and would much appreciate your sharing of
> personal choices. This Wiki article [1] has some insight, but not
> sufficient to satisfy my quest.

I use Deja-vu fonts, mostly because it is whole pack (all kinds looking
similar) and have Czech diacritics.

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