On 07/20/2010 10:26 AM, R P Herrold wrote:
Reading that and the companion mentioned in the last comment, my takeaway is that fonts in fedora are (or were) bad [I trust m miller's judgment here, and have for a long time, as he is a thoughtful analyst]
Which fonts? All of the fonts I use on Fedora (pretty much all the defaults) look significantly better than a default Windows desktop, and better than OS X, IMO.
Just yesterday I was looking at this: http://avi.alkalay.net/2007/01/freetype-with-bytecode-interpreter.html
The author believes that the BCI examples are much better. Some of the examples are maybe slightly better, but mostly just seem awful and jagged to me. I prefer the AA fonts, with or without BCI. Commenters appear to largely agree with me.
I'm sure that opinions vary, but I really don't think fonts on Fedora are bad.