fonts!, fonts!, and fonts!!

Mountainjew · 2010-06-12 03:59:00

Another vote for Droid. Switched from Helvetica a few months ago.

litemotiv · 2010-06-12 08:45:21

i think droid mono's spacing is a little too tight, so i'm sticking with good ol' dejavu sans

ninian · 2010-06-12 19:23:16

Droid has recently seduced me as well (away from DejaVu). But it's unfortunate that Firefox doesn't seem to render Droid very well, whereas Opera and Midori do a decent job. Droid is certainly a "classy" font and it's nice in print too.

electricaltape · 2010-06-13 00:11:40

litemotiv wrote:

i think droid mono's spacing is a little too tight, so i'm sticking with good ol' dejavu sans

Maybe I am not sufficiently font-cultured, but I still prefer deja vu book.

shak · 2010-06-18 08:15:33

I'm using Droid Sans Mono for gui and cli and i love it . It's the only font with size 7 that i can see quite easily the text and is also beautiful

Terminus is good as well but i don't like the appearance of it for the gui . Thanks for the slashed edtition , i didn't know it existed

MkFly · 2010-06-18 08:44:09

I'm not sure about the raving about "Lucida Grande" -- I find it pretty ugly.

tpfkanep · 2010-06-18 08:50:47

I boot arch into the CLI, from where I signin to xfce. What is the name of that CLI font?

clutch · 2010-06-18 14:27:38

Anikom15 wrote:

The fact that Droid Mono failing to clearly differentiate between 0 and O is complete failure. Courier gets an exception because it was designed for typewriters, but on the computer that distinction is necessary.

This kind of stuff causes major headaches. The first time I tried to use patch on the command line I spent a good half hour trying different things because I kept getting error message. The syntax for patch is patch -p[number] blah blah blah. Turns out the font I was using had identical characters for lower case 'L' and '1'.

It kept telling me, "l is not a number", and I was sitting there going, "well no shit".

lol

Anikom15 · 2010-06-18 15:58:05

That's exactly why I love the DejaVu fonts for the screen, the spacing is perfect and the glyphs are distinct.

lman · 2010-06-18 16:06:01

+1 for droid, switched from dejavu a few weeks back

alterecco · 2010-06-21 00:04:06

dina

bananaoomarang · 2010-06-30 13:38:36

Ahh I have always wanted to find some good fonts to plug into my kde systemsettings. These look great, thanks.

maxexcloo · 2010-07-03 09:34:57

I use Veranda. Tried Droid, went back

splittercode · 2010-07-10 04:24:44

GUI/Desktop: Droid Sans

Terminal/Console: Proggy Clean w/ slashed zero and centered punctuation

I've tried a TON of fonts, and I like these two the best by far.

Cdh · 2010-07-11 14:04:54

At topics like this I always wonder what's wrong with my system.

For me all alternatives seem broken.

Anikom15 · 2010-07-11 19:12:38

Why does everyone use 96 DPI? Why don't they use the actual DPI of their monitor? My old CRT is 87, and my laptop's is 96. If my desktop had 96 everything would be too big. I'd imagine high res fonts would be too small.

brebs · 2010-07-11 22:33:19

Anikom15 wrote:

Why does everyone use 96 DPI?

Because it's a good number - nicely divisible.

everything would be too big

Nonsense - it's not the only number involved. Decrease the "point size" to suit your eyes.

Cdh · 2010-07-11 23:12:29

Actually this is what is automatically detected. If turned off, everything stays the same.

Anikom15 · 2010-07-11 23:33:02

But with the proper DPI, text is the same size as it would be printed out.

So 10 pts is the same size physically on all monitors.

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