Oxygen Font – you could use it with Gnome too

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1. Miles Bader says:

   August 9, 2012 at 6:05 am

   Hmm, I like the way this font looks, but there’s some rather awkward letter-spacing in this example…

   E.g., “Sys” (in “System”), “rno” (in “vernon”), “nfi” (in “infinity”), etc.

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   • vernon adams says:

     August 9, 2012 at 10:10 am

     I know and it got fixed. One of the aspects of ‘fonts on screen at small sizes’ is that ok letter spacing can go bad. Characters can so easilly snap ‘too close’, or ‘too far’, from neighbouring characters. And to make it worse, eg, an ‘r-n’ can snap ‘too close’ at 9pts and ‘too far’ at 10pts. Ends up being a job of designing letter spacing alongside letter shaping, to minimise these problems. Of course i can also hint the font across the horizontal, to preserve the letter spacing, but that would only solve the issue on some OS’s, sometimes. ‘f’, ‘t’, ‘i’, ‘l’ and ‘r’ seem to be the worst offenders, therefore standard ligatures can also help with some combinations.

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