default fonts

[Richard Li]

This morning I decided to experiment with the fonts on my FC2 laptop. A 
few minutes later, Thunderbird, Firefox, and my desktop look immensely 
better by simply switching to Bitstream Vera. Now, I don't want to start 
a which-font-looks-better-war, but the default of the generic "Sans" and 
"Sans Serif" fonts are pretty terrible and I think that there is no 
question that the defaults could be changed to something better.

I had to change the default fonts in three places:

o Thunderbird
o Firefox
o Preferences/Fonts in GNOME

Is it possible to change the defaults for these apps?

I searched through the archives and there has been some discussion, 
although it seemed to center around which font looks best:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2003-December/msg00055.ht...

Honestly, I don't care, as long as it isn't Sans and Sans Serif ;-).

Thoughts?

Richard

[Rex Dieter]

Richard Li wrote:
> This morning I decided to experiment with the fonts on my FC2 laptop. A 
> few minutes later, Thunderbird, Firefox, and my desktop look immensely 
> better by simply switching to Bitstream Vera. Now, I don't want to start 
> a which-font-looks-better-war, but the default of the generic "Sans" and 
> "Sans Serif" fonts are pretty terrible and I think that there is no 
> question that the defaults could be changed to something better.
>
> I had to change the default fonts in three places:
>
> o Thunderbird
> o Firefox
> o Preferences/Fonts in GNOME
>
> Is it possible to change the defaults for these apps?

...
> Honestly, I don't care, as long as it isn't Sans and Sans Serif ;-).

AFAIK, I believe the Luxi-* fonts were chosen as defaults for Sans, 
Serif, etc... (see /etc/fonts/fonts.conf details regarding font 
defaults) mostly because of Bitstream Vera's lack of support for 
non-English languages.

-- Rex