For you font fanatics

Lovechild · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 10:19 pm Post subject: For you font fanatics

FreeType2 2.1.3 is out, it's not on the website YET, but it's on some of the ftp mirrors, running it now on my MDK system (sorry), works like a charm and fonts seem a bit prettier now..

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did I say... a bit... I meant.... OH MY FREAKKIN' DEITY... what kind of beast have I unleased....

Lovechild · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 10:36 pm Post subject:

this is not in good manner, but I'm replying to myself with a screenshot to show off.

screenshot
Be warned dailup users, to show off the full shebang this screenshot had to be pretty large.

The font used is standard Luxi Sans [XFT]

ebrostig · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 10:56 pm Post subject:

mglauche · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 8:34 am Post subject:

i just did download the .bz2 and copy the 2.1.2-r1 ebuild to 2.1.3 ... everything works fine, even some small bugs are fixed !

(i had some strange cut of font problems in phoenix, now fixed)

Didn't try anything advanced yet (with fontconfig2 for example) so can't tell on the quality of the hinter ...

orochi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Aug 2002 Posts: 76

just installed it and i have to say... the font look great now, finally better than windoze 'clear type'

_SkeLeToN_ · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 3:56 pm Post subject:

That would be great if someone can do a screenshot of Slashdot with the old freetype and the new one.

I loved to see the big difference.

Larde · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:01 pm Post subject:

_SkeLeToN_ · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:17 pm Post subject:

Well I prefer the new one It's much nicer !!!

Which fonts do you use right now ?

Lin_Matt · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:19 pm Post subject:

Say what ya will.... The new one kicks *ss!

Larde · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:26 pm Post subject:

I changed autohinted from false to true, now slashdot looks like this, I think that's gotten a little bit better.
I use