Sugar's fonts

[Walter Bender]

I agree that the DejaVu fonts are far from optimal. There are some
instructive comments on the wiki about seemingly mundane things like
the shape of the 4, etc.

While we certainly will have a mechanism for varying the basic system
font and size, for the most the activities where the majority of
reading is expected to take place have mechanisms for scaling already
(Read and Write). The interface in the browser is not yet exposed and
Etoys is a place where we expect children to spend time reading and
writing as well.

That said, I'm not sure that we'll find one set of metrics for all
activities and all children from running field tests. But we could be
better informed about some of the default settings.

-walter

On 9/28/07, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bert Freudenberg writes:
>
> > I wonder if comparative studies have been made with the XO screen?
> > My gut feeling is that it is more comparable to paper-based text
> > books than CRTs. Now Colbert says gut feeling is all you need,
> > but maybe some research is still in order.
>
> Let's do it.
>
> Everybody with an XO can find at least a few kids. We need some images
> of text, and a way to display them on all XOs. (B2-1 hardware too,
> which normally runs build 406)
>
> We'll need several languages. One of the CJK languages would be
> particularly good to have; at one point Tux Paint had to localize
> the font size for Japanese if I remember right.
>
> Let's try several fonts. I find DejaVu to be somewhat difficult to
> read because of the non-standard shapes. DejaVu appears to be much
> worse for the African hooked characters, with defective line widths.
>
> Reading speed and accuracy seem like the right metrics.
>
> Both black-on-white and white-on-black should be tested.
>
> Mono mode in very bright sunlight should be tested.
>
> Consider line-to-line spacing separately.
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Walter Bender
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