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Date: Wed,  8 Jul 2009 18:21:26 -0400
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From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fonts
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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. =A0i haven't found one yet that looks good in
> both a browser and in plan 9. =A0i use code2000. =A0but 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. =A0=F0 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.