Summary: | media-fonts/font-adobe-* - most x11 packages default to proprietary helvetica fonts and they should not | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Nikita Zlobin <cook60020tmp> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Nikita Zlobin
2018-03-08 13:32:07 UTC
Oh, i'm not sure, that any sans-based font is good. Since core font system doesn't have antialiasing, it would be better to have bitmaped or any those, designed for use without antialiasing. I remember old time of X11R6 and old apps, which did not have antialiasing... probably, fixed/terminus would be good for core fonts (unless there are some non-fixed bitmap fonts) (In reply to Nikita Zlobin from comment #0) > However, this font seems to be not allowed for distribution (unless you > are mac or win), and for free linux - need to be bought at www.linotype.com. This is not true. media-fonts/font-adobe-* are distributed under an MIT-like license. "Adobe Systems, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation have jointly donated 5 families of fonts (Courier, Times, Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, and Symbol) in a variety of sizes, styles and weights." [1] https://www.x.org/wiki/X11R3/ Thanks, i did not know, that it is in gentoo portage tree. I got adobe-font, while searched for and installed any other x11 bitmap fonts, which could work better for where core fonts are still used. I have xterm, which is such utility (too lazy to correctly configure tmux with simpleterm, yet it allowes to disable embedded line graphics, what i used to get rounded corners, using edited font with rounded corners, copied in place of square. |