Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : ttf-antp Version : 0.51 Upstream Author : Bogus³aw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk * URL : http://www.janusz.nowacki.strefa.pl/poltawski-e.html * License : GPL Description : Antykwa Poltawskiego font family Long desc : This font was designed by Adam Poltawski in 1923-28 as a result of his research on readability of letter forms. Even though this typeface is pretty dated now, and the readability of screen fonts obeys different rules than it does on paper, this font still beats Bitstream-Vera when applied to large blocks of text. Packages : http://angband.pl/debian/ I'm not sure if a single font family warrants a separate package. Still, it would be good to have this one in Debian as generally the readability of existing free fonts is poor. Compared to Bitstream Vera (which is currently the default Gnome font), Antykwa Poltawskiego looks a lot better for larger chunks of text (as in a web browser, text documents, etc) while being worse when it comes to rendering random window text (dialogs, menus, etc). The hinting information differs from upstream, as the upstream hints play really poorly with freetype. The hints I included (produced by fontforge with hardly any manual intervention), on the other hand, fare pretty well, as does the freetype autohinter. On the gripping hand, now the win32 renderer hates the hints, but hey, the last time I checked, debian-win32 was dead... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
