[webkit-qt] About the fonts used for QtWebKit tests

Balazs Kelemen kbalazs at webkit.org
Thu May 31 07:08:21 PDT 2012


>
>> And since we are doing this rebaseline, another question...
>>
>> 2) Given that we have a huge rebaseline ahead, what about changing our
>> Nimbus family of fonts to the Liberation family of fonts
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts). I see two benefits:
>>
>> - They share the metrics with the Arial/TimesNewRoman/CourierNew
>> fonts, so we could _potentially_ share some expected results with
>> other ports.
>
> I like this idea. ;) (I don't know why we usethe Nimbus
> family, but I'm sure there is a rationale for it.)

If nobody knows the reason than I believe somebody just picked up Nimbus 
at the early days :)




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