Fonts, GUI design and visualy impaired Was: Re: [Cooker] [openoffice]GUI fonts invisibles

[Lea Gris]

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francesco.melo wrote:

Pascal Terjan wrote:

nDiScReEt wrote:

Change the font for OOo or for the system? If it is for OOo, how would that be
achieved if nothing can be read?

vim /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf
replace AUTO by the name of the font

thanks :)

now it works !

Having:

UI_FONT="helvetica"

and

FONT_SCALING="AUTO"

Just gives a more soft and clean look.

Im a very low sighted person with 1/10 both eyes (normal sight field though). That's why I pay so much attention to font and colour choices for any GUIs.

Hav to do balanced choices between font size and usability. Large fonts = easy read = much less information per screen = bloated UI
small fonts = more workspace per screen = well balanced UI = eye stress

I just keep using clear design san serif fonts like "clean, helvetica..." as 12pt (72 DPI screen)
I read that on a 21" screen at a distance of 5" (4" from a 17" screen). This means 1024x768 for the max everyday resolution.

Hope this might help Mandrake consider visualy impaired persons in teir own developments and built'in ready to use config designs.

Regards,

- -- Léa Gris
() Campagne du ruban texte brut contre les courriels en HTML,
/\ contre les pièces jointes Microsoft.


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