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Fonts are in the eye (or rather, visual cortex) of the beholder. I got used to the Mac fonts, but at first I thought it was some kind of bad joke or misconfigur
by nearestneighbor 17y ago
Fonts are in the eye (or rather, visual cortex) of the beholder. I got used to the Mac fonts, but at first I thought it was some kind of bad joke or misconfiguration. They seemed annoyingly blurry.
My theory is that one's brain gets used to the particular fonts and may not like change very much.
- grandalf 17y agoYou are right that OSX uses different subpixel rendering than Windows, but I think that at present the free fonts on Ubuntu are not quite at the level of OSX's fonts and some of Adobe's. This could just be my own aesthetic taste, but I think it could also be due to those companies having highly paid font designers working on those details.
- nailer 17y agoAgfa (who do the Ubuntu / Fedora fonts) developers are paid just like anyone else.
- grandalf 17y agoHmm... Well I admit some of the free fonts are awesome... but I have not found them to be quite as pleasing... Maybe it's just my own taste... not worth arguing about since Ubuntu is awesome and the free fonts are certainly good enough for most purposes...