Hi. Why is everyone always talking about how Linux's fonts
don't look as good as microsoft's? they look alright to me. Is the fuss about the actual design of the font or the way it's pixelated in X?




thanks

a lot of people like truetype fonts, and don't know they can change them

what ARE true type fonts really? and what does gnu/linux use? I know nothing about fonts (and im a graphics monkey, go figure) where are fonts in GNU/Linux installed?

I heard a while back about how fonts for GNU/Linux are crappy because they offer terrible anti alias support. my Gnome desktop looks sexxy...

whatchoo talkin about foo?

I dont know about fonts But the Icons (.ico files) look better in Linux. If the Linux guys can make .ico files look better how come thay have probs with fonts.
besides I never felt Linux fonts dont look good.

alot of fonts are copyrighted, and can only be used if a licence/royalty is bought/paid. i agree, i've never noticed that my fonts look bad.

In some cases, my linux fonts look better than my windows ones.

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Hey I am using LiNUX & the fonts look rALlE mUssud uP

TrueType fonts are special because they look exactly the same on the screen as they print out on paper. It was developed by Apple, ages ago, and licensed to Microsoft.

The real problem people used to have with linux fonts was two-fold:

1. True Type wasn't supported. This meant that there were often subtle differences between screen-fonts and printer-fonts, which annoyed graphics buffs. But now, True Type seems to work fine out of the box with most major distros.

2. The fonts weren't as well designed as Microsoft and Apple Fonts. Little dots and tics and burrs appeared where they shouldn't. Round edges had lumps on them. It takes alot of time an effort to design a font which scales well without looking bad.

So people wanted to use their nice windows fonts under linux. But TrueType wasn't supported, so an almighty fuss was kicked up, and a project to make True Type work (called FreeType) was started. Now some distros have special utilities specifically for extracting fonts from Windows and using them.

Of course nowadays both KDE and GNOME antialiase their fonts. This gets rid of the dots, ticks and burrs without needing a new font.

What about fonts in OpenOffice? I get Word doc's with TT fonts referenced (in styles etc) that don't show up. Sometimes the text is there but invisible until I manually change the font or add a OO specific font to the style.