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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KDefault font
From:       Art Carney <greencarrots () nospammail ! net>
Date:       2004-05-12 10:40:24
Message-ID: 200405120640.24554.greencarrots () nospammail ! net
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On Wednesday 12 May 2004 04:27 am, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 May 2004 03:43, Art Carney wrote:
> > My favorite font for UI is News Gothic by Bitstream. Incredible
> > legibility without the smeariness that Vera Sans, Verdana, and Arial
> > often have. The glyphs are crisp and slightly taller most sans-serif
> > fonts for a look that is attractive and readable for long periods of
> > time.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the News Gothic fonts aren't free.
> >
> > On Tuesday 11 May 2004 12:21 pm, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> > > Dnia poniedzia³ek, 10 maja 2004 00:44, Davide Ferrari napisa³:
> > > > Alle 22:02, domenica 9 maggio 2004, Alexander Nordström ha scritto:
> > > > > I find Freesans incredibly sexy and readable. I use it for just
> > > > > about everything and force all Web pages to use it. Personally, I
> > > > > wouldn't mind seeing it adopted as a standard for the desktop.
> > > >
> > > > My 2cents..I found Cursor a really nice and readable font, ways
> > > > better than Helvetica.
> > >
> > > Helvetica is one of the worst... I was looking for some time and
> > > settled with Verdana. Font itself is rather ugly but has very good
> > > readability - ideal for interface.
> > >
> > > m.
>
> I'm not too fond of helvetica myself. I have used Lucida-based
> configurations for a long time now, and I'm still using it on my slow
> laptop.
> however, if this discussion has to produce anything useful, there is no
> point in suggesting non-free fonts. In fact, probably the only viable fonts
> are those supplied with X.
>
> Luciano

If freely licensed font is what you want, then Bitstream's Vera Sans is a nice 
one for UI fonts. It's designed to be very close to Verdana, just as Vera 
Serif is designed to approximate Microsoft's Georgia (which is OK but doesn't 
look very good in FreeType IMO). Vera Mono is designed to be similar to MS's 
Andale Mono.

All in all, a nice font family and worth installing on any Linux box. They are 
GPLed, btw.

For for good free-as-in-beer fonts, Softmaker, creators of the quedo-Qt 
wordprocessor and spreadsheet Text- and PlanMaker, releases a new font for 
free every month over at http://www.freefont.de/
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