On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:47:53AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 00:43 -0400, Emily Dirsh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I started making up the type samples for font comparison, but I kept
> thinking that something interactive would be more useful, so I made
> this instead. Everyone go and try it out so we can pick a font
> already. :)
>
> Here's the full url:
>
http://www.fightingcrane.com/emily/fedora/fontfight/
Wow, that's really amazing Emily - you've written an app in its own
right here! :)
I'm definitely liking Cantarell more. Like Nicu said, it feels it has
more breathing spacing and I think is a bit easier to read.
Hm, I found the extra kern space is actually making word shape
recognition quite a bit harder in Cantarell. Also, there are some odd
spacing issues, check out:
* 'me' in 'Americans' (line 1)
* 'ms' in 'museums' (line 2)
* 'ed' in 'esteemed' (line 2)
Looks like 'e', 'm', 'F', 'o' are kind of wonky that way.
Gets a
little worse at smaller point sizes.
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