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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/design-page-screen-grab.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/design-page-screen-grab.png How does the font rendering here compar

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/design-page-screen-grab.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/design-page-screen-grab.png How does the font rendering here compare? Its Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04 (actually using Gnome Shell). I've always found Ubuntu font rendering different to other GNU/Linux distributions, and I prefer it.

intended 15y ago
This is how it looks like on chrome running on windows with default settings. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17182392/Bad%20Fonts.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17182392/Bad%20Fonts.png
- keithpeter 15y ago
  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/design-page-windows7-explorer9.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/design-page-windows7-explore... What we get on our Windows 7 / Explorer 9 desktops at work. I actually can't see too much difference between this and the grab from Ubuntu/Firefox. If you can see obvious differences, now you know what you are up against when you talk to non-designers like me.
  - intended 15y ago
    Mine is hideous - the absolutely terrible rendering of corners and curves - it makes pages like this abhorrent to read. I should have made that clear - yours looks great comparatively and yes the ie9 and FF versions are close to each other comparatively.
fiatpandas 15y ago
If I'm judging your screenshot on aliasing/rendering alone, it's very nice (Mac-tier). However, when I look at your screen, I can't help but notice how big everything is on the page. Did you change default font size settings in FF? Could be a GTK issue as well. Text is being occluded in the red circles; the FB stuff at the top is bigger than it should be; the credits to the right are too big. Here's my FF for comparison, which has the sizes right but bad rendering on the body text: http://i.imgur.com/LnY6h.png http://i.imgur.com/LnY6h.png And chrome, being even worse with aliasing: http://i.imgur.com/zFcu1.png http://i.imgur.com/zFcu1.png
- keithpeter 15y ago
  Screen shot was taken using gnome-core package installed on a CLI Ubuntu 12.04 installed from the netinstall iso. So no Unity desktop. I'm still working out what might be missing or altered in this very non-standard setup. I'll pop another one on later with a default Unity interface as the Ubuntu team intend I've always preferred Ubuntu's font rendering over other distributions/oses.

intended 15y ago

This is how it looks like on chrome running on windows with default settings. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17182392/Bad%20Fonts.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17182392/Bad%20Fonts.png

keithpeter 15y ago
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/design-page-windows7-explorer9.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/design-page-windows7-explore... What we get on our Windows 7 / Explorer 9 desktops at work. I actually can't see too much difference between this and the grab from Ubuntu/Firefox. If you can see obvious differences, now you know what you are up against when you talk to non-designers like me.
- intended 15y ago
  Mine is hideous - the absolutely terrible rendering of corners and curves - it makes pages like this abhorrent to read. I should have made that clear - yours looks great comparatively and yes the ie9 and FF versions are close to each other comparatively.

fiatpandas 15y ago

If I'm judging your screenshot on aliasing/rendering alone, it's very nice (Mac-tier). However, when I look at your screen, I can't help but notice how big everything is on the page. Did you change default font size settings in FF? Could be a GTK issue as well. Text is being occluded in the red circles; the FB stuff at the top is bigger than it should be; the credits to the right are too big. Here's my FF for comparison, which has the sizes right but bad rendering on the body text: http://i.imgur.com/LnY6h.png http://i.imgur.com/LnY6h.png And chrome, being even worse with aliasing: http://i.imgur.com/zFcu1.png http://i.imgur.com/zFcu1.png

keithpeter 15y ago
Screen shot was taken using gnome-core package installed on a CLI Ubuntu 12.04 installed from the netinstall iso. So no Unity desktop. I'm still working out what might be missing or altered in this very non-standard setup. I'll pop another one on later with a default Unity interface as the Ubuntu team intend I've always preferred Ubuntu's font rendering over other distributions/oses.