There are two very different versions of Liberation Sans, which makes
testing somewhat complicated. Liberation Sans 1.0 has bad kerning and
little support for extended Unicode. Liberation Sans 2.0 has great kerning
and implements support for a lot more glyphs, but not always correctly. The
version I used for the tests was 2.0, but according to robla, a lot of
Linux distros have 1.0 (which might be a problem due to the bad kerning).
I agree that Arimo should probably have the same style score as Liberation
Sans. It has a very small installation base, but might still be worth
considering for inclusion.
Ryan Kaldari
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
<bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Ryan Kaldari
<rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
One number covering all three.
One thing I wonder about is the difference in style score for Arimo (5) and
Liberation Sans (10). Apparently the only difference between the two is the
hinting.
Something this subjective could probably do with a much more diverse
sample.
Do you mean a more diverse sample of fonts, a more diverse sample of
text,
or a more diverse sample of evaluators?
Evaluators.
You can see a sample from the technical tests in
the file attached to
this
bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072095
Sorry I don't have more documentation for that.
Interesting.
In some local testing, it seems that Liberation Sans (1.07.3) isn't
actually being used for any of the diacritics on
[[en:User:Kaldari/Font_test]]. If I change the font-family to "'Liberation
Sans', 'Unicode BMP Fallback SIL', 'sans-serif'" and preview I
get fallback
characters on top of all the 'g's.
OTOH, Liberation Sans with DejaVu Sans as a fallback (default sans-serif on
my system) does better than your screenshot. Oddly, using Arimo as a
fallback doesn't work very well.
I haven't tested on different backends yet,
but that's what part of what
I
was talking with Rob about today. Apparently the
font hinting can cause
significantly different rendering quality on different operating systems.
Any help assessing this would be appreciated.
If you tell me what exactly you want screenshots of, I can make screenshots
for all the fonts on your list except Helvetica and Helvetica Neue with
Debian's font renderer, in Firefox (really Iceweasel) and Chromium.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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