local and remote text fonts

[Bert Wesarg]

Tony Balinski wrote:
> Quoting Scott Tringali <scott.tringali at totalviewtech.com>:
> 
>> X resources can usually be qualified by the display name
>> (.Xdefaults-hostname), that might be the easiest way.
> 
> I didn't realise you could do that!
> 
>> Tony, instead of specifying different fonts pixels based on screen DPI,
>> you can just specify fonts by point size which does the same thing.  Of
>> course, that may not give exactly what you want.
> 
> I've always found that the change in visible font sizes when you vary point
> size always seems very unpredictable and non-uniform.
> 
>> Right now we default to a point size, not pixel size, on the theory that
>> it will produce a reasonable size no matter what the DPI is.  (Well,
>> unless KDE or something has stomped on it.)  But sometimes you want more
>> control over it - especially if you're using bitmap fonts where a
>> particular pixel size is very important.
> 
> I use misc-fixed fonts always because I find them clearest, being a nice
> 1-to-1 pixel mapping. They can be quite small too, which I like. I find
> variations of Courier to be too square, and have unnecessary serifs. As a
> default it's OK, but I prefer fixed's clean style. I've settled on 6x13 AKA
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 and its
> bold/italic relatives. The ideal font set AFAIC. For the finer screen
> resolutions, I just sit closer ;-).
Just to throw my preferred font here too and I like the fixed point fonts too:

-etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1

Bert

> 
> Tony