On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:16 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > On Mon Jun 11 17:07:15 EDT 2012, mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote: >> looking for more pleasing fonts I came across dejavu which are >> downloadable from http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Download >> > [...] >> >> coverage is so-so, but there are latin/greek/cyrillic ttfs available >> too. i didn't try them out. > > dejavu sans is pretty good. > > it really is a trick finding decent coverage and a good looking font. > good coverage seems to be more important as folks assume unicode. > > i've been using cyberbit, but it has some holes. it's killer feature is > very good hinting at smaller sizes. > > i keep meaning to teach ttf2subf to break off the subfont at unicode > block boundaries to make stiching together fonts easier. > > - erik >
Vera (I think from your contrib) works very well for me, I find that it looks good and has good enough coverage for all my uses. The biggest challenge with Plan 9 fonts is getting the heights right; often converted ttfs will have the bottom of "g" and a lot of the non-ASCII characters cut off at either top or bottom. john
