Droid Sans

[Bill Nottingham]

Jeremy Perry (jeremy.perry at redhat.com) said: 
> Here is a quick rundown. 
> 
> Things I know or are my opinions as a designer:
> - Deja Vu Sans is a very vide font, and in many cases causes "ugly" ui because of the amount of space it consumes. Screen space is at a premium and this font makes the issue worse by being one of the widest out there. This is a big pain point in places like dialogs and skinny window titles.
> - Deja Vu Sans is known to be tricky to render on screen - some letters just have awkward spacing and widths no matter what you do (bowls on d's seem compressed, etc). I blogged about this as it relates to Fedora: http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/jperry/2009/10/30/when-rendering-text-on-screen-every-pixel-counts/
> - it looks old - compare it to any other modern UI.
> - The bold is really quite bad and amplifies the issues above.
> 
> Things I dont know as fact but suspect about Deja Vu Sans
> - Wasn't designed for UI use specifically. UI fonts are not made for documents, or vice versa.
> - Hasn't been as rigorously crafted and tweaked by fontographers for best fitting and spacing

OK. I did some quick comparisons which can be seen at:

http://notting.fedorapeople.org/font-tests/

if people are interested.

Billl