Re: [Indlinux-group] Brittle Looking Indic Fonts - Ubuntu Hardy

[Rahul B. <rah...@ya...>]

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From: Vinod Kumar <rig...@gm...>
To: "Indian Linux group ," <ind...@li...>
Sent: Monday, 5 May, 2008 10:21:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Indlinux-group] Brittle Looking Indic Fonts - Ubuntu Hardy



On 5/5/08, Vinod Kumar <rig...@gm...> wrote:Please see the screen shot of the wiki hindi page on IndiX. The font used is RaghuHindi.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/football_nut/2468290538/

I think you will agree with me that the IndiX ouput looks the mostbrittle of the lot. First, the RaghuHindi font uses thick and thinstrokes. This is suitable only for high quality printing and notsuitable for screens with the normal resolution.  The Sarai fontlooks much much better as it is a uniform width stroke (a lahelvetica)  font. On a printed page thick and thin strokes willlook far better than a uniformly  thick font.. 


On second look at the wiki page with Sarai font,it is not a uniformly thick stroke font. Probably the ratio of thethick and thin strokes is less than that of RaghHindi.

There are some some differences between the Sarai page and the IndiXpage. The tabs at the top in the IndiX page shows मुखपृष्ठ, संवाद etc but the Sarai based page shows only the first. Secondlyunderlinining is missing in Sarai page. Why?


I did not notice that too, this may be because the page in sarai's screenshot is slightly scrolled down and also due to the formatting done in firefox3. Other changes like underlining are due to version difference in firefox. Firefox seems to underline some of the links only when highlighted. 

Rahul.






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