Ubuntu Mono is over-antialiased

[Vsevolod Velichko]

Take a look at the screenshot in bug #863501 or at the one attached. Both have examples of the Ubuntu Mono and Terminus. Examples in the former one are rendered by GIMP (font size = 18), while examples in the latter one are rendered by gnome-terminal (font size = 11).
As it can be seen, in both cases the Terminus font has nice sharply defined form, while Ubuntu Mono is over-antialiased.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

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[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Note: that the appearance depends on the rendering mode. If Ubuntu Mono is rendered as hinted black-and-white (a work-in-progress) then you get output similar to the high-contrast to the bitmap-only rendering mode of Terminus.

BTW: in the font testing beta team PPA, there's a package named 'fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console' which contains black-and-white 8x16 bitmap rendering for the Linux console. These can be loaded with 'setfont'. They're not ideal, and Vincent Connare at Dalton Maag is still working on them.

[Vsevolod Velichko (torkvemada)]

Ah, I've just fount that terminus uses bitmaps for all the font-sizes. I don't want to argue on the same behavior :), but IMHO such high contrast is the one of main grounds for it is used as a main font for coding.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I would be interested to see survey results for which monospace fonts coders use on Ubuntu. Without those, however, I highly doubt the suggestion that they prefer bitmap fonts over anti-aliased ones. That might have been true in the 1980s and 1990s when low resolutions made anti-aliasing a mess, but not today.

As long as anti-aliasing is standard in non-bitmap fonts, any problems with anti-aliasing in Ubuntu Mono should be reported as individual hinting bugs.

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