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From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fonts
Date: Wed,  8 Jul 2009 18:21:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaafc130907081521jaf3977j730aa9bc50c1638@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8837f9b2447f924a33a5fc4fbbf12deb@quanstro.net>

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:51 PM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> Yes, but with all the work in Acme and Sam, I've become quite
>> accustomed to having ` look nice. It just makes the browser look out
>> of place. It's not just the tick either, I'd like the browser font to
>> generally look the same.
>
> that's hard.  i haven't found one yet that looks good in
> both a browser and in plan 9.  i use code2000.  but i would
> buy a "better" font, if there were one available.
>
> i use the vera fonts in abaco (the fonts are also available
> for linux) but the coverage is very poor.  π is the only
> greek letter available.
>
> - erik
>
>

There are no ttf/Xft/$format versions of the Bigelow and Holmes lucida
fonts? The Ludica typefaces available on Linux are definitely not the
same -- much poorer quality.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-08 19:00 Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 19:11 ` Joseph Stewart
2009-07-08 19:11   ` Joseph Stewart
2009-07-08 19:49 ` J. R. Mauro
2009-07-08 19:49 ` Bakul Shah
2009-07-08 20:05 ` Josh Wood
2009-07-08 20:14   ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 20:15   ` J. R. Mauro
2009-07-08 20:44     ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 21:44       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 21:51         ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 22:21           ` J.R. Mauro [this message]
2009-07-09  2:21           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-09  3:17             ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-09  5:25               ` Russ Cox
2009-07-09 10:10                 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 21:01                 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 21:34                   ` Russ Cox
2009-07-09 10:02               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-08 20:50     ` John Floren
2009-07-08 21:42       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 21:47         ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 21:49           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 20:23 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-09 15:43 Chad Brown
2009-07-09 15:55 ` Federico G. Benavento
2002-01-07 19:04 forsyth
2002-01-07 18:41 Russ Cox
2002-01-07 20:16 ` Fariborz Tavakkolian
2002-01-07  9:38 skipt

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