INTERACT FORUM
Linux => JRiver Media Center 32 for Linux => Topic started by: BryanC on July 08, 2024, 09:52:34 am
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After much trial and error I've settled on Inter Medium 12 since it's the most legible for me on the Modern Cards: Dark background.
(https://i.ibb.co/8X7hdnS/image.png)
Previously I used Liberation Sans for years but the Inter punctuation is clearer and makes it easy to see the difference between backticks and single quotes, for instance.
I'm curious which fonts other MC users prefer.
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Inter is a great font. In fact I just read that GNOME devs are considering making Inter the new default interface font, which would be great. Previously on Windows I used the Segoe UI Variable font to better match the system, but it has legibility issues like you mentioned.
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You can spend all day trying out the various fonts available on the 3 Platforms MC runs on and at the end of the day you may still have not worked out which one is the best or most legible because MC has a really bad habit of miscolouring fonts; one of the reasons they become less legible.
I use the Verdana Font in MC on the win and mac pcs and in my TrackInfo Plugins and the difference between MC's handling of the text and HTML's superior handling of it is very noticeable.
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I'm using Open Sans, which I find a little more legible than Liberation Sans. I was using Cantarel for a while, but it was a little too "much" for me.
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Very timely article about the past, present, and future of font rendering on Linux: https://behdad.org/text2024/
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Very timely article about the past, present, and future of font rendering on Linux: https://behdad.org/text2024/
Very interesting stuff. The more I read about harfbuzz the more interested I get. A few weeks back I ran into this and was deeply amused: https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/
It's basically a font with a tiny LLM and inference engine embedded that can trick harfbuzz into acting as an LLM and generating text. I had no idea that you could basically do arbitrary code execution in fonts, but here we are!