{"id":16,"date":"2005-10-25T02:50:30","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T00:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2006-10-04T00:10:34","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T22:10:34","slug":"smooth-part-2-tweaking-dejavu-sans-for-zaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/2005\/10\/25\/smooth-part-2-tweaking-dejavu-sans-for-zaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Smooth&#8230; (Part 2: Tweaking DejaVu Sans for Zaurus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been asked by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oesf.org\/forums\/index.php?showforum=138\">Guylhem<\/a> to try to improve the free <a href=\"http:\/\/dejavu.sourceforge.net\">DejaVu<\/a> font for display in Qtopia.<br \/>\nAfter some tinkering in FontLab I have a pretty nice result. Here is a comparison of the various stages:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/Illustration2.png\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"{SmoothFont} Variants of DejaVu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_Illustration2.png\" width=\"103\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Illustration2\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/Illustration3.png\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"{SmoothFont} Variants of DejaVu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_Illustration3.png\" width=\"103\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Illustration3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I see it, the main problem with the DejaVu font (and Bitstream Vera therefore) is the spacing between the glyphs which tends to be too wide. This is observable in Windows and Qtopia. Especially on a PDA screen this is not a pleasant view.<br \/>\nSo, what I did was to create a tweaked version of the font, again using FontLab.<br \/>\nLowering the left and right sidebearing of each glyph by 18% resulted in the &#8220;DejaVu Sans Compressed&#8221; version you can see on the screenshots.<br \/>\nNow, still finding the glyphs to be too big, I applied a 90% scaling to each. In my opinion the resulting version &#8220;DejaVu Sans Compressed Smaller&#8221; looks really nice and comes very close to the quality of the C*libri font.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made the fonts available here:<br \/>\n<a class=\"downloadlink\" href=\"http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/zaurus\/fonts\/helvetica-replacements\/free\/\">http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/zaurus\/fonts\/helvetica-replacements\/free\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find additional screenshots here:<br \/>\n<a class=\"downloadlink\" href=\"http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/zaurus\/fonts\/helvetica-replacements\/\">http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/zaurus\/fonts\/helvetica-replacements\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been asked by Guylhem to try to improve the free DejaVu font for display in Qtopia. After some tinkering in FontLab I have a pretty nice result. Here is a comparison of the various stages: As I see it, the main problem with the DejaVu font (and Bitstream Vera therefore) is the spacing between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-zaurus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}