Re: Proportional fonts in the mode line (one month test)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Most probably.  The font selected here is also but-ugly.  It was OK
> for small stretches of text we used variable-pitch until now, but when
> the entire mode line is using it, it's just too much, to my
> (un)liking.

We should try to pick better proportional fonts, it sounds like.  The
fonts picked on Debian and Macos look pretty good to me, so perhaps this
is mostly a problem on Windows?

>> Comparison screenshot attached.

I thought that looked pretty reasonable?  The bold font is really big,
though -- it looks like a greater difference then the monospace
normal/bold juxtaposition.

> Mine is much uglier.

Could you post a screenshot?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no