Re: Does the font look weird on this site?

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:38:50AM +0630, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
> >On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:55:20 -0400
> >Arch Willingham <arch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>One of the main sites we go to daily is our local town's on-line paper 
> >>(www.chattanoogan.com). I hate to compare it to Windows but with that OS 
> >>and IE, the pages are very clear. In Firefox (FC6, FC7 and FC8), all of 
> >>the smaller characters look funky and are very hard to read (look down 
> >>under the section called "Breaking news" where there are blue letters on 
> >>a white background). Is it just my setup(s) or does the site look funky 
> >>to y'all too?
> >
> >The fonts specified for the blue headlines under Breaking News are 
> >"Verdana,
> >Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
> >
> >Do you have any of those installed?  Most of them are part of the Microsoft
> >Core Fonts for the Web, which can be downloaded and used on your Linux
> >installation here:  http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
> 
> .. or you can use liberation fonts which provide metric equivalents and 
> is available in the Fedora repository.
> 
> # yum info liberation-fonts
> 
> 
> Rahul
> 

How do the liberation-fonts compare to the webcore-fonts that are currently
installed on my system?

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