Joseph Mocker wrote: > Stefan Teleman wrote: >> >> You *DO* need to configure your font appearance. >> >> There have been significant changes affecting font rendering >> introduced in Nevada 127. It is very likely that you will need to >> adjust your font settings. > Any tips on a good procedure to follow to tweak font settings. I tried a > few things this morning but couldn't get things so all apps looked > acceptable. Thunderbird being the main culprit I couldn't get adjusted > quite right. > > Thanks...
Therein lies the insanity: Not all fonts are created equal, not all monitors/resolutions are created equal, not all font/encodings combinations are created equal, the same font which looks beautiful with lcd/resolution/encoding ABC will look much worse with lcd/resolution/encoding XYZ, etc, etc, etc. Different fonts will look better or worse at different autohinting/full hinting/no hinting/monitor/lcd/resolution/encoding combinations. The only rational suggestion i can make is: experiment, choose the fonts which look best. You could download TrueType free fonts from the Internet (there are plenty of sites with very high quality patent/licensing free TrueType fonts), and pick whichever looks best. "Sans" and "Serif" are not actual fonts -- they are moniker aliases for DejaVu Sans, or FreeSans, or whatever Thunderbird configured them to alias. You need to pick and choose the right fonts for Serif and Sans, namely the fonts which look best on your particular graphical display combination of variables. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. stefan.teleman at Sun.COM
