On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 06:59:35 +0000 co...@sdf.org wrote: > Hi, > > Helvetica is a proprietary font. There is a bitmap-only Helvetica in > base. In an attempt to avoid this font, and under the impression > bitmap fonts are guaranteed to look bad by design, I made fc-match no > longer match bitmap fonts: > https://v4.freshbsd.org/commit/netbsd/src/N7XSt9wHfjaVH75A > > This is not very visible because netbsd-8 and older versions use > pkgsrc fontconfig a lot with its own configuration. > > I came across a post suggesting that the dislike of bitmap fonts isn't > universal: > "More "modern" Chinese users prefer sans-serif fonts over the bitmap > Chinese font (65% based on a survey at Ubuntu Chinese forum, N>300), > while some other users prefer bitmaps."* > > Has this been a problem for anyone, but it was unclear what is the > change causing it? > > * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911
I don't quite understand what problem you're trying to describe here. Are you talking about font formats - Bitmap vs TrueType, or font families - Helvetica vs Sans-Serif. Personally, I tend to much prefer bitmap fonts, rather than something like Vector or TrueType fonts that use Bézier curves. I find bitmap fonts a their native resolution very sharp and crisp, where TrueType fonts can look smudged and blurry.