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From: | serando |
Subject: | looking for old Linux Fonts |
Date: | Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:52:51 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 |
Hello, Please note: I do not want to use such modern technique like Anti-Aliasing. I think Anti-Aliasing is good for 4K monitors. But I have a 1280x1024 pixel LCD monitor. I know that most people use Anti-Aliasing on a 1280x1024 LCD monitor. But I do not like it. I would rather have a crystal-clear writing with stairs than a light blurred font without steps. I guess, most default Linux fonts nowadays seems not to look good without anti-aliasing, because they are anti-aliasing optimized. Right? So what can I do? I thought maybe I just can take the same default Linux fonts, but an older version of them. Hoping, that the older versions were designed before anti-aliasing was introduced and therefore look good without anti-aliasing. So I have installed the following old versions of today's default Linux fonts: -Bitstream Vera Sans from year 2003 -DejaVu sans from year 2006 -Free sans from 2012 -Liberation sans from 2011 To be sure that the fonts do not look ugly because they are badly hinted by freetype, but that it is really the font itself, that has bad letters, I copied these four fonts into a Windows system and looked at them there, with the windows hinting system. Result: You can find the results as attachments. Some bad letters are marked with arrows. Liberation sans looks quite good. The other fonts are ugly, even in this older versions in windows. What I am asking for: Since fonts are the main component that freetype deals with, I thought maybe you could give me a hint: I am looking for fonts (fontnames) designed for Linux that were default fonts before anti-aliasing was introduced. What were the names of them and where can I find this old default fonts? Would appreciate an answer. Thank you.
Bitstream Vera Sans Windows 2003.png
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Liberation Sans windows 2011.png
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Free Sans Windows Version 2012.png
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DejaVu sans windows version 2006.png
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