Google fonts provide better rendering

[madurapa]

I just tried rendering views with some Sinhala fonts from Google. It appears sharper and more appealing than the current version.

I'm using Ubuntu and the Chrome browser.

Google Sinhala Fonts

[pathnirvana]

That is not a Google font, it is the lklug font which looks awful

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022, 20:54 Maduka Jayalath @.***> wrote:

I just tried rendering views with some Sinhala fonts from Google. It appears sharper and more appealing than the current version.

[image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4289578/200847202-760bbabc-fb9b-4e99-9762-9f55c5443eb6.png

I'm using Ubuntu and the Chrome browser.

Google Sinhala Fonts https://fonts.google.com/?subset=sinhala

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[madurapa]

මම කියන්න උත්සාහ කලේ ගූගල් අකුරු දැම්මමාම ලස්සනට පේනවා කියලා (මම ට්‍රයි කරලා බැලුවා එහෙම දාලා, ඒකෙ ස්ක්‍රීන්ශ්ෂ්ෂොට් එකක් තමයි කලින් දැම්මෙ). එහෙම දැම්මමාම මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතියෙන් ස්වායක්ත වෙලා එකම විදියට හැම පද්ධතියකම් පෙනෙයි කියලා කියන්නයි ඕනි කලේ.

[pathnirvana]

We are using un-abhaya which we prefer over noto fonts

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022, 21:39 Maduka Jayalath @.***> wrote:

මම කියන්න උත්සාහ කලේ ගූගල් අකුරු දැම්මමාම ලස්සනට පේනවා කියලා (මම ට්‍රයි කරලා බැලුවා එහෙම දාලා, ඒකෙ ස්ක්‍රීන්ශ්ෂ්ෂොට් එකක් තමයි කලින් දැම්මෙ). එහෙම දැම්මමාම මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතියෙන් ස්වායක්ත වෙලා එකම විදියට හැම පද්ධතියකම් පෙනෙයි කියලා කියන්නයි ඕනි කලේ.

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[madurapa]

See the difference for yourself; it is up to you to decide what is best for the project rather than personal preference.

[pathnirvana]

definitely not a personal preference, earlier we had used noto as well. If you want to compare screenshots at least increase the font size to a comparable level. also think why newspapers and most sinhala books use abhaya instead of noto.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 9:59 PM Maduka Jayalath @.***> wrote:

[image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4289578/200863582-a1890188-e990-4ef8-afc5-95fb741ee12f.png [image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4289578/200863635-069daa53-12af-44c6-b0aa-ae9d5d0783b4.png

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[madurapa]

If you meant that the screenshots I've attached are too small to see, you can enlarge them by clicking on them. I can clearly see the distinction.

I hope you understand the difference between display and print. (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-screen-font-and-a-printer-font)

Lankadeep site uses Malithi Web while Divaina uses Nato

1 Google Abhaya Libre 2 Google Noto Sans Sinhala

I believe Google fonts are screen optimized, and those Sinhala fronts were created by https://github.com/mooniak I suppose.

[pathnirvana]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 2:35 PM Maduka Jayalath @.***> wrote:

If you meant that the screenshots I've attached are too small to see, you can enlarge them by clicking on them. I can clearly see the distinction.

no that is not what I meant. you need to have the same size letters in both screenshots

I hope you understand the difference between display and print. ( https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-screen-font-and-a-printer-font )

I believe Google fonts are screen optimized, and those Sinhala fronts were created by https://github.com/mooniak I suppose.

abhaya libre was created by mooniak. I created the UN-abhaya and rest of the UN fonts to look better on screen https://pitaka.lk/tools/unicode/download_unicode.htm#id-un-abhaya

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[madurapa]

[pathnirvana]

You have to reduce the font size until same amount of content is displayed on both sides Left has 2 paragraphs while right has only one.

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[madurapa]

Perhaps the issue is that your font lacks equivalence space between some characters.