On 13/04/14 14:12, Martijn Hoekstra wrote:
But same as
the original font stack, the question remains - for everything
but mac, what is this supposed to solve? What is the purpose of
even having helvetica and arial there when they're already the defaults on
their respective systems, and when on other systems they would likely be
far worse than the defaults? And for linux, either they'll already be using
nimbus sans (if they even have it), or it's not going to be what their
renderers are optimised for.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh/Font_choice/Test tells me
Linux now often gets DejaVu as default sans, and I understand we would
rather force Nimbus if it is available as it is deemed better. Also, free
font up front.
--Martijn
Deemed better? Better how? But that's what I'm saying - if the
configuration is optimised for dejavu sans, nimbus won't be better at
all even if it is a better-engineered font (doubtful, though, it being
an arial clone from what I understand). Letters will be too close
together, sizes and hinting will be off, and that's not even going into
the whole rabbit hole of messing with what people are used to, which
seems to be the single biggest determining factor as to what they find
easy to read once the basics are covered...
-I