about default fonts set in fedora :)
-- What's wrong with this? - http://i.imgur.com/kt3Bsmp.png
I just took that, and I haven't done anything with fonts since I installed Fedora.
-- I guess they are obviously terrible.
So terrible that it's self evident and thus requires no screenshots or explanation.
I guess.
Very common. Everybody on planet Earth is already in agreement. Where have you been?
I have downloaded and installed some interesting fonts from here: http://www.google.com/get/noto/pkgs/Noto-hinted.zip
And also I have created file ~/.fonts.conf with content taken from here: https://gist.github.com/silv3rm00n/5599072 (as suggested by http://www.binarytides.com/better-fedora-20-xfce/). To be honest, I have no idea if this file has affect on my current fedora's fonts set, but fonts in general have become much more attractive where they're applied :)
... and then I installed xfce:
$ sudo yum install @xfce
$ sudo yum install xfce4-xkb-plugin # keyboard layout plugin
$ sudo yum install xfce4-mixer # sound level controller
and fonts started to seem awful again... well:
1) sudo yum install google-droid*
2) sudo yum install google-noto-* (installing this takes rather long and fedora suspends several times and becomes irresponsive. Be patient :) )
3) Alt+F3 -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Default font -> Noto Sans 10
4) Alt+F3 -> Window Manager -> Title font ->Droid Sans Bold 10 (well it has changed for sure)...
5) Fonts in some programs (Chrome, Firefox, IntelliJ IDEA) I have changed manually changing native settings of those programs.
Here's some hints for IDEA:
5.1) In the IntelliJ IDEA, go to Settings -> Appearance; Check "Override default fonts by (not recommended)"; Select Droid Sans from the drop-down list.
5.2) Go to Settings -> Editor -> Colors & Fonts -> Font; Uncheck "Show only monospaced fonts"; Select Droid Sans Mono from the drop-down list.
5.3) Go to Settings -> Editor -> Colors & Fonts -> Console font; Uncheck "Show only monospaced fonts"; Select Droid Sans Mono from the drop-down list.
6) And I renamed .fonts.conf to ~.fonts.conf -- thus it has no affect on fonts configuration in xfce/fedora.
But I'm still not sure about proper way to configure fonts in xfce/fedora.
...I distinguish awful/not awful fonts by letter "m". When font is awful arches of "m" may considerably wary in width for different sizes of font (first arch may be much wider then second and vice versa), when fonts are not awful both arches look width-equal for any size of font :)
Fonts in Windows are way better even than google's Noto and Droid
I just took that, and I haven't done anything with fonts since I installed Fedora.
-- I guess they are obviously terrible.
So terrible that it's self evident and thus requires no screenshots or explanation.
I guess.
Very common. Everybody on planet Earth is already in agreement. Where have you been?
I have downloaded and installed some interesting fonts from here: http://www.google.com/get/noto/pkgs/Noto-hinted.zip
And also I have created file ~/.fonts.conf with content taken from here: https://gist.github.com/silv3rm00n/5599072 (as suggested by http://www.binarytides.com/better-fedora-20-xfce/). To be honest, I have no idea if this file has affect on my current fedora's fonts set, but fonts in general have become much more attractive where they're applied :)
... and then I installed xfce:
$ sudo yum install @xfce
$ sudo yum install xfce4-xkb-plugin # keyboard layout plugin
$ sudo yum install xfce4-mixer # sound level controller
and fonts started to seem awful again... well:
1) sudo yum install google-droid*
2) sudo yum install google-noto-* (installing this takes rather long and fedora suspends several times and becomes irresponsive. Be patient :) )
3) Alt+F3 -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Default font -> Noto Sans 10
4) Alt+F3 -> Window Manager -> Title font ->Droid Sans Bold 10 (well it has changed for sure)...
5) Fonts in some programs (Chrome, Firefox, IntelliJ IDEA) I have changed manually changing native settings of those programs.
Here's some hints for IDEA:
5.1) In the IntelliJ IDEA, go to Settings -> Appearance; Check "Override default fonts by (not recommended)"; Select Droid Sans from the drop-down list.
5.2) Go to Settings -> Editor -> Colors & Fonts -> Font; Uncheck "Show only monospaced fonts"; Select Droid Sans Mono from the drop-down list.
5.3) Go to Settings -> Editor -> Colors & Fonts -> Console font; Uncheck "Show only monospaced fonts"; Select Droid Sans Mono from the drop-down list.
6) And I renamed .fonts.conf to ~.fonts.conf -- thus it has no affect on fonts configuration in xfce/fedora.
But I'm still not sure about proper way to configure fonts in xfce/fedora.
...I distinguish awful/not awful fonts by letter "m". When font is awful arches of "m" may considerably wary in width for different sizes of font (first arch may be much wider then second and vice versa), when fonts are not awful both arches look width-equal for any size of font :)
Fonts in Windows are way better even than google's Noto and Droid