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You’re asking for the impossible. When it comes to fonts, no single configuration would ever make everyone happy. Look at the screenshots for the out of the box
by soraminazuki 3y ago
You’re asking for the impossible. When it comes to fonts, no single configuration would ever make everyone happy. Look at the screenshots for the out of the box appearance on Manjaro. I don’t see anything wrong with it compared to macOS. Yet, here we are.
Making a font change to an open source project is a good way to attract angry replies in issue trackers if you’re not careful. The Perfect Configuration (TM) simply doesn’t exist.
- raggi 3y agoOh I agree that font and weight selection are entirely preferential. In both of these images you can clearly see bad color bleed in the title bar font, and in the content font in the after case. I'm guessing the users main concern is that they want a higher text density which the after shot demonstrates. IMO both of these cases can be improved substantially to remove the color faults using grayscale subpixel rather than this colorful mess. RGB subpixel has not looked good on any screen I've used in what about 10 years? The shapes of displays no longer produces good results with these techniques. Why? Take a picture of your screen from close up with a modern phone and zoom in. You may see a non-RGB layout, but even if you don't you'll almost certainly observe a pattern where the empty space is significantly vertically larger around one boundary (often red/blue), this is related to the brightness targets monitors have been hitting for so long. As the pixels no longer align with the theoretical shape, if you can see the colors, the colors often look super trashy.