On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 14:57 -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look > different. I followed all the instructions on > http://fedorasolved.org/Members/khaytsus/improve-fonts/, but the fonts > look pretty much unchanged: > > http://www.rath.org/res/fedora.png > > I would like them to look more like this: > > http://www.rath.org/res/ubuntu.png Looking at both screenshots, they're both apparently using the same size font (other than monospace), yet their size and shape appear different. Which leads to a couple of conclusions: 1. "Sans" isn't the actually same font on each. 2. The screen size / scaling is different (probably by playing silly buggers with the DPI). A very slight change in font size can make a significant difference to readability. Both in the effect of getting a nice size font, as well as how well a font can be drawn on a medium with limited resolution (screens are MUCH lower than print). Also, the Ubuntu shot is lower contrast (the text is gray, not black; the shading on the drop-down gadgets is smoother, most likely as a consequence of using steps of gray that are closer to each other in luminance values, or perhaps more steps). Lowering the contrast, ever so slightly, is another thing that can make a picture look a bit softer. Which may, or may not, look better to you, depending on what you're trying to do / trying to look at. It can lead to other problems, if you print or produce graphics for other people, if you tweak your things differently to how the end product needs to be. To me, the Ubuntu shot has gone too far. The writing looks smudgy, and there's some quite obvious colour fringing around the edge. That's how sub-pixel smoothing works, using the red green and blue pixels independently, and that can become quite obvious once they're brightened up. If you don't have a way to directly tweak the text contrast, to suit yourself, you might want to go looking for different themes, or learn how to modify a current one. The other thing to check is whether they use the same font rendering engine. If they don't, then you're not going to get them to look "the same." Close, perhaps, but not identical. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
