With hinting set to Slight, the Droid fonts look worser to me. Here is a
comparison I made:
DejaVu Sans, Size 9, Full Hinting
Droid Sans, Size 10, Full Hinting
Droid Sans, Size 10, Slight Hinting
The DejaVu fonts definitely look better to me, although its hard see or
explain why
I think it's largely a personal choice. BTW I'm currently using PT Sans
Caption and I find it to be much better than Droid and Deja Vu.
What package provides this font, if it's in the repositories?
pt sans isn't in the repo. I downloaded it from google webfonts svn :D
you can download all google webfonts at
https://s3.amazonaws.com/joemaller_google_webfonts/googlewebfonts.tgz
P.S. pt sans is under the SIL open font license
When I install Trisquel I always set the desktop fonts to DejaVu. The default
Droid fonts don't look crisp on LCD screens. Now it occurs to me that this is
an issue that should be reported.
By default Ubuntu uses the Ubuntu fonts which also look crisp on LCD
screens. The Liberation fonts
If you set hinting to none or Slight, Droid fonts look much better .
I don't know the answer to this question although I suspect it is just an
oversight. If I'm not mistaken Trisquel is made from a base set of Ubuntu
packages (with appropriate modifications to those packages).
Trisquel doesn't ship the exact same applications Ubuntu ships on the default
It has 5.0 although not 5.5:
Also 5.5 now.
t3g, are you referring to the ttf-liberation package, which provides with the
same metrics as Times, Arial and Courier or to a different package?
I'm referring to the ttf-liberation fonts because I tried out the latest 5.5
ISO from http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/ and they weren't installed
by default. I do understand that this isn't a pure Ubuntu clone and it is
evident by including the ttf-droid fonts by default which I
The package is listed as part of Brigantia:
http://packages.trisquel.info/brigantia/ttf-liberation
Maybe you need to file a bug?
I say this because the default FreeFonts are still considered a work in
progress and aren't at the quality of the Liberation ones. Steve White and I
have been conversing back and forth since this past December and I've been
testing his improvements and giving suggestions on how to improve
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