On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 10:51 -0400, Deron Meranda wrote: > On 10/26/06, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I thought that I saw somewhere that FC6 changed to DejaVu fonts or > > something like that. That's probably what you are seeing. > > Regarding the unpleasant kerning issues, it does seem to be a > problem specifically with the DejaVu family of typefaces; > although the Sans face is actually the worst offender. In fact there > is an obvious difference between DejaVu and Bitstream Vera > in many of the kerning pairs (since DejaVu is a derivitave of > Vera this is surprising). The DejaVu kerning is really messed up, > it doesn't look professional at all. Isn't anybody else seeing this? The font looked terrible initially. The 0's (zeroes) had an off-centered dot in the middle. The bold fonts in evolution's email list looked too bold. I recompiled freetype with the byte-code interpreter and now everything looks wonderful (except for N's and W's on linuxtoday.com). The zeroes have a perfectly centered dot in them now. ...Jeff
