[Design-team] Font comparison

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:11:57PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:47:53AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 00:43 -0400, Emily Dirsh wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I started making up the type samples for font comparison, but I kept
> > > thinking that something interactive would be more useful, so I made
> > > this instead. Everyone go and try it out so we can pick a font
> > > already. :)
> > > 
> > > Here's the full url:
> > > http://www.fightingcrane.com/emily/fedora/fontfight/
> > 
> > Wow, that's really amazing Emily - you've written an app in its own
> > right here! :)
> > 
> > I'm definitely liking Cantarell more. Like Nicu said, it feels it has
> > more breathing spacing and I think is a bit easier to read.
> 
> Hm, I found the extra kern space is actually making word shape
> recognition quite a bit harder in Cantarell.  Also, there are some odd
> spacing issues, check out:
> 
> * 'me' in 'Americans' (line 1)
> * 'ms' in 'museums' (line 2)
> * 'ed' in 'esteemed' (line 2)
> 
> Looks like 'e', 'm', 'F', 'o' are kind of wonky that way.  Gets a
> little worse at smaller point sizes.

Forgot to point out one other factor, although it's more of a
quantitative one -- the Cantarell text takes quite a bit more
horizontal space for the same material at the same point size.  IIRC
that's one of several reasons the Design team had looked at moving
away from DejaVu and the like.

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