Re: [developers] Arabic fonts in GTK look ugly, why?

[Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com>]

This basically down to font design. There are not many arabic fonts
out there that can display properly for small size. I think there are
no arabic fonts out there that are properly hinted for small size. For
small size, most would use Tahoma, which is readable, at best.

I tried to solve this problem in a different way - embedded bitmap.
You can try my font at http://mrykacstqurn.wikispaces.com/ . I did not
have the time to complete the font to my desire, but it is usable.

Regards.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:40 PM, A.Haq Abbad <haqman at gmail dot com> wrote:
> Salam.
>
> I am trying to investigate why arabic fonts look "ugly" under GTK,
> let that be firefox or Gnome, here is an example below:
>
> http://www.ojuba.org/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php/thwab/thwab-2.2-bookinfo.png
>
> As you can see, the top bar, menu, icons and labels all look out of shape,
> whilst the centre of the application looks smooth and nice.
>
> Why can't we have the same effect "clear arabic font" under gnome and
> firefox?
>
> Regards.
>
> Wassalam.
>
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