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gevaerts:

--- Quote from: toehser on December 13, 2013, 01:36:00 PM ---... On further reflection, maybe some of these should be default fonts, not just in the font pack ... I'm just saying ...

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You seem to like controversy

toehser:
Well, I certainly don't shy away from it for a good cause...

And... well... I didn't assume that it would be controversial that cabbiev2 with 8-pt rockfont might not be the BEST foot forward first impression...

toehser:
I mean... here is the first impression of the current default theme for the Sansa Clip Zip... and an AA font theme called Cleanscreen... which do we want to be people's first impression of Rockbox when they download it... something like A or something like B?  The AA fonts actually help to make it look a lot more professionally designed...  I'm not saying that particular theme should be the default... just that the 8-point non-AA font, gray on gray, with the illegible "NOW PLAYING" header that isn't even readable when zoomed... No slight intended to the creator of the existing theme... maybe other devices have lovely default themes with AA fonts?

[Saint]:
I went down this route a while ago...

It is, somewhat difficult, to say the least.

Unless there's a change in the way fonts are handled by the build system.

To be able to do this, there is essentially two choices:

1 - a list of "recipes" for font conversion to be passed as required
2 - a pre-built set of fonts in the source repo (which would be truly, truly, truly massive if we cared at all about extensive locale support - which we really should).

In saying that, I don't think we should be worrying too hard about this. Its terribly subjective.

Rockbox gives users the power to make the changes they desire, if they desire it, for now I think our main concern is supplying a default theme that is uniform when compared to other supported targets.

If we are going to change one theme, we'll need to change them all...otherwise we won't have a default theme anymore.

Frankly, the only issue I see with the example given is the now playing banner in the .wps, which is almost certainly a product of hasty resizing and can be fixed with relative ease. That's no biggie.


[Saint]

ZincAlloy:

--- Quote from: toehser on December 14, 2013, 11:18:44 AM ---I mean... here is the first impression of the current default theme for the Sansa Clip Zip... and an AA font theme called Cleanscreen... which do we want to be people's first impression of Rockbox when they download it... something like A or something like B?  The AA fonts actually help to make it look a lot more professionally designed... 


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I disagree. AA looks good on big fonts. For small type, pixel fonts without AA look best because they're much sharper.
The default theme on Clip Zip doesn't look unprofessional because the font isn't anti aliased. The problem is that there is no space between the lines.



Much better, don't you think?

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