The long-awaited Vera fonts are out!!!

swat · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 144

Is it me, or has the ebuild for these fonts completely vanished ?

Simon

d3c3it · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 12:07 am Post subject:

somethings screwed up for me ive tired every way descriped in this and i still cant see the fonts and now when i run switch 2 to change the fonts it just closes because of "Segmentation fault"
and when i run fc-cache -fv it still caches the /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera folder howd i stop that? because ive copied them over to the vera folder in /usr/X*/lib/X*/fonts/
any idea?
EDIT Fixed it i made a mistake in 1 my config files 1 thing thou how do you change the size of the fonts when using AA ie when im not using it my GTK+ apps the size can be changed but using AA the fonts on menus etc are much larger
i still cant get AA to work and when i select it in the fluxbox config the fonts are HUGE and ugly
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chr1z · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 207

how do i use the Vera fonts in GTK1 apps? it seems that i can only select them with GTK2 apps.

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Yinchie · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject:

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Yinchie · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 10:04 pm Post subject:

ghetto · Guru Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 369 Location: BC, Canada

lol.. sounds like a terrible disease
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d3c3it · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 10:47 pm Post subject:

ghetto · Guru Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 369 Location: BC, Canada

true

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cies · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 9

Souldn't these fonts be added to the XFree distribution... This we can all use these nice font (1) by default, if we want, and (2) in every program (not only by default in gnome).

Cheers,
Cies.

nephros · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:43 pm Post subject:

chriskwan · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:00 pm Post subject:

is it just me, or does the Vera family look exactly like the Luxi family?

and isn't the Vera family default on Bluecurve (redhate's desktop)
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zombie · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal

Hey I didn't do a lot of research on that but what the hell, I'm curious, how do you change the look of a gtk2 app to fit the theme you've chosen for your kde apps? Since gnome 2 has appeared, I've tried it a couple of times but even if it has some nice features, I found it to be awkward and crashy. So I'm sticking with KDE 3.1 for now, but some of my favorite apps are written with gtk, and it'd be nice to make em look like the rest of my environment. Yeah I know I been lazy, not reading any doc and such, but if anybody feels like answering, you're more than welcome

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IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 10:52 pm Post subject:

Well it's pretty sad but those new fonts suck. Hell, even the crappy Luxi family (THAT COMES WITH XFree86 IN THE FIRST PLACE) looks better.

And you guys, the best UI font is, IMHO, definitely Trebuchet MS. Go ahead and try it, it's part of Microsoft Core Web Fonts so you should have it already. Especially without font hinting on sans-serif fonts (forgot who mentionned it on the forums, but it's the best font advice ever), Trebuchet MS looks goddamn sweet.

IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 11:01 pm Post subject:

ghetto · Guru Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 369 Location: BC, Canada

I love it when people try to tell people what they think looks nice and try to pass it off as fact...

what looks nice entirely depends upon an individuals taste: Personally speaking I dont like big buts.. but some guys just cant get enough of them.. meh.. but if a guy likes his girl to have some extra junk in the trunk then who am i to judge.
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Yinchie · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:40 am Post subject:

[img:10046d9085]http://www.relaxz.net/archives/gedit-bitstream_vera-tmp.png[/img:10046d9085]

ghetto · Guru Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 369 Location: BC, Canada

I love your window manager, where did you get it?
Is it Metacity or Sawfish or uh.. e17? (I know that e17 is not a windowmanager..)
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Yinchie · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:49 am Post subject:

Its E16.
Tried E17 once, find it very buggy and I dont need all the extra bloat.

elfy · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 35 Location: Minnesota, US

Off OS: I tried these fonts on a Win2K box, and it gave me excellent (!!) results.

I love it!!
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Herodot · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:19 pm Post subject:

Yinchie: A screenshot is always good, now we know what we're talking about.

I also get this kind of look with these settings, but I don't like it. A couple of IMOs FYI (and everybody else):

- Size 10 is too big for me. I'm using 1600x1200 at 112x110 dpi on a 19" (18.1") CRT monitor. Size 8 is what I use.

- The autohinter makes the letters (glyphs) look bold-ish and the edges aren't sharp. This becomes a problem with small fonts, eg. size 7-, especially in bold. Like the KDE taskbar.

- All letters look good, apart from "m". It has different sized arches, the Bytecode interpreter doesn't do that.
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