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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Markus Jansen <mja@jansen-preisler.de>,
	Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	Victor Engmark <victor@engmark.name>,
	Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>,
	Tarun Batra <tarun.batra00@gmail.com>,
	Semyon Kirnosenko <semyon.kirnosenko@gmail.com>,
	Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>,
	Luca Milanesio <luca.milanesio@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 69
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 09:40:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD32sjT_nttQrxknr=4EYUQLMebg=KhdGmMJ7j+YUmTjwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s28HEUUvW8hs5PxrW5NwwDdpou-qsNm8nx3kMk_g0brNw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 9:27 AM Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> A nit-pick that has bothered me for years...
>
> The font seems to be the same as git-scm.com, which is horrendous [1]
> in Linux.

I agree that the fonts haven't looked great to me either.

> After investigating all the different fonts specified in the list
> (present in macOS and Windows), I sent a fix [2] to pick similar fonts
> for Linux.

Thanks for your pull request! I hope we can merge it soon.

> The best one is Roboto Slab [3], which looks very similar
> to Adelle, and it's free. Alternatively, DejaVu Serif [4] is a good
> second option present in many (most?) Linux systems, plus it's how it
> looks on Windows with Georgia. And lastly, plain old (but not 90s old)
> sans-serif [5].

Thanks for the screenshots too. Yeah, it seems that the fonts you
suggest look better.

Best,
Christian.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-11-28 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-27 21:14 [ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 69 Christian Couder
2020-11-28  8:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-11-28  8:40   ` Christian Couder [this message]

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