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I have unifont installed on Linux. Ironically, when I set Firefox to disallow sites to choose their own fonts, and set unifont as my default, the unifoundry sit
by a3n 10y ago
I have unifont installed on Linux. Ironically, when I set Firefox to disallow sites to choose their own fonts, and set unifont as my default, the unifoundry site text looks terrible, like the old days. When I allow sites to choose their own, unifoundry looks fine. And when I disallow, and use Verdana, unifoundry looks fine.
Similar with HN.
I'm guessing one of the goals of unifont is that I never see a box where I should see a glyph. Is there a way to fall back to unifont? Is it a per app choice?
- kccqzy 10y agoUnifont is at its heart a bitmapped font. Maybe that explains why you see it as horrible. And yes in most modern operating systems font substitution is automatic, so indeed you will not see a box instead of a glyph. However that depends on applications using the right system API for drawing text.
- lfam 10y agoOne of the design choices of Unifont is to trade quality for coverage: "Unifont is a creation of Roman Czyborra, who in 1998 lamented that seven years after Unicode's first release, there was still no single font that could display all Unicode characters. He suggested that if expectations of font quality were lowered to that of a bitmapped font, achieving coverage of Unicode would be easier." So, if you render everything with it, it won't be very pretty. But it makes a great fall back option for missing glyphs. source: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unifont https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unifont