Oh, forgot two important points.. > Find free fonts that: > > + is compact and suitable for a GUI (say, menus and a file browser) > + looks good and is easy to read > + in sizes 7-12 without antialiasing > + in sizes 5- with antialiasing
+ has bold and italics > + has both upper and lower case characters > + has scandinavian and french characters, euro sign, mathematical > characters etc. + supports several character encodings (ascii, iso8859-1, iso8859-15, etc) > (+ is really free and you can even distribute modified versions) > > Good examples, except that they are not free, are Windows fonts Microsoft > Sans Serif, Courier New and Times New Roman. The free Verdana is > unfortunately too wide for GUI use, IMO. > > - Jarno