From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 14:58:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5102298.u5IyEnbS9e@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53770CFD.7010107@gmail.com>
On Saturday 17 May 2014 02:17:17 Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes
> that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with
> glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks
> with bad eyes? In other words, for you folks who can't see good, what
> font do you use?
>
> I'm just curious. Just reply and let me know what you use. I think I
> need to change mine to something better.
I'm glad you asked, Dale. I've been meaning to go a-searching fonts for some
time and now you've prompted me into it.
So far I've found these to be acceptable:
Liberation Sans
Bitstream Vera Sans
Clockopia
DejaVu Sans
Droid Sans
Free Sans
Trebuchet MS
URW Gothic L
Verdana
That last one, I believe, was designed by M$ for use in web pages.
I'll spend some time with each of them and find which I like best. You'll
notice that they're all sans-serif. That's because I believe serif fonts need
a higher pixel density than most screens have, and that's why they work well
when printed on paper but not here.
Hope that hasn't muddied the waters even more!
--
Regards
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-17 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-17 7:17 [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes Dale
2014-05-17 11:21 ` David Haller
2014-05-17 23:13 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-05-19 10:29 ` David Haller
2014-05-19 11:59 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-05-18 1:17 ` Walter Dnes
2014-05-19 10:23 ` David Haller
2014-05-21 6:22 ` Walter Dnes
2014-05-21 9:28 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-05-21 14:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-05-17 12:52 ` Philip Webb
2014-05-17 13:58 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2014-05-19 11:56 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2014-05-17 14:43 ` wabenbau
2014-05-19 11:52 ` [gentoo-user] OT: PNG MIMI type Frank Steinmetzger
2014-05-25 19:27 ` wabenbau
2014-05-21 9:48 ` [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes Benjamin Lee
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