From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:16:06 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <794e3d261b7115da2febffdbf33fdfbc@kw.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] dejavu sans Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9c2fd34e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Jun 11 17:07:15 EDT 2012, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote: > looking for more pleasing fonts I came across dejavu which are > downloadable from http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Download > [...] > > coverage is so-so, but there are latin/greek/cyrillic ttfs available > too. i didn't try them out. dejavu sans is pretty good. it really is a trick finding decent coverage and a good looking font. good coverage seems to be more important as folks assume unicode. i've been using cyberbit, but it has some holes. it's killer feature is very good hinting at smaller sizes. i keep meaning to teach ttf2subf to break off the subfont at unicode block boundaries to make stiching together fonts easier. - erik