[desktop-discuss] GNOME default fonts on 2008.11 RC1

[Calum Benson]

On 10 Nov 2008, at 14:38, Guido Berhoerster wrote:

> Why is this the default font?

It was chosen because most of the people we asked (in an admittedly  
small and unscientific survey) thought it was a better compromise  
between compactness and legibility than the font we were previously  
using.

So far we've had few complaints (except when we changed the size in  
b99 as well, a change which we reverted in b100).  But if we get  
enough negative feedback, then of course we will reconsider for the  
next release.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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