[squeak-dev] Re: Title bar bug on trunk

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Fri Aug 21 14:38:38 UTC 2009


Hi Martin,

Martin Wirblat wrote:
>
> Hi Juan,
>
> the answer to your question whether more sizes of your nice font are 
> useful depends on their role. If they are thought to become the main 
> fonts in Squeak, then many more sizes are not only useful, they are 
> *necessary*. I have of course the bigger sizes in mind, at least up to 
> 24 pixels. Declaring 9 pixels height as a standard coding font for 
> everyone is *unhealthy*.
>
> ...
>
> One thing I found comparing fonts from Cuis with Pharo is that 
> especially the bigger sizes are spaced too narrow - see the attached 
> image of size 24 (the lower row is from Cuis). I suspect this has to 
> do with the lack of proper kerning. To me it looks as if at least 3 or 
> better 4 pixels of additional space would make the font in this case 
> more readable.
>
> Regards,
> Martin

Please check the latest Cuis release (announced minutes ago). It 
addresses the issues you raies.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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