[sldev] unicode.ttf

MATSUU Takuto matsuu at gmail.com
Fri May 18 17:10:56 PDT 2007


hi

I want slviewer to support fontconfig for linux. fontconfig could
elect the best sans-serif font for your locale.

2007/5/17, Alissa Sabre <alissa_sabre at yahoo.co.jp>:
> Paul,
>
> > Any suggestion about which particular fonts from these font packages to
> > use?
>
> I have never tried any of the font packages Matuu suggested, but the
> following is my general policy for East Asian typefaces selection.
>
> > I'm guessing mincho for the Japanese, (which surprises me, I though
> > gothic was "sans-serif", ie. body text),
>
> I don't think so.
>
> I believe most of the Japanese users prefer sans-serif Japanese font,
> since it is the style used in SL viewer for ASCII characters, and
> Japanese gothic (sans-serif) better matches with the MtBkLfRg.  Mixing
> Japanese mincho (serif) with sans-serif Latin fonts makes a poor
> design.
>
> > but it's not clear to me if
> > Kaiti or Mingti/Sungti is a better choice for Chinese,
>
> I would say we should use hei style for Chinese.  Kai is some sort of
> a manuscript style, and ming, song, sun are serif.  However, I also
> know that hei style is not popular in Taiwan, and it is not easy to
> find a good hei style font for Traditional Chinese.  In mainland
> China, hei style is widely used, and it should be no problem finding
> simplified heiti fonts.
>
> > which of the
> > four fonts in the baekmuk package is appropriate.
>
> Dotum, gulim, or gothic.  When both are available, I personally prefer
> gulim, but dotum may be an ordinary choice, since dotum is usually
> designed more similarly to Helvetica/Arial style than gulim.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>     Alissa Sabre
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