From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proportional fonts in the mode line (one month test) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 19:22:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83ee758o4i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h7c1u0cg.fsf@gnus.org> <6ab5879d-8b0b-8205-a8c7-f2c1d61afba2@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38702"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 24 18:23:49 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mpvzo-0009oB-Hf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 18:23:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35880 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mpvzm-0005jp-MP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:23:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57814) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mpvyh-0004pV-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:22:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=39188 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mpvyg-0006pr-Mt; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:22:38 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=YDXttpkQEw3bRj8EKAyP7VFAIK7oEXXv41kNOrQtCRg=; b=k3lAk/Np6rjO HnkBFt+tqSPp5XI5gnAowLReRez2ixmQGIENWrIhyUzpJfR9ArllOITXsaMEwHlxwRnJuSS8hagoW 2iAY4onApuyv72Ck9MCQRZy7r9OuBjhIRFmshfyBPCthxYhOgVGyY6KzVB2mKIVHR6jdeJggQr6Uy gU8LFrp5hXqybJrXx8VPKXkXrMxHlPh8pXht/ZbyT6VuNtXK1xCBci8igaeOKWF7OGMduDzvLooF8 Byd9xzyDmjbCWgmWnMii6XssRk/ddnuxkUk5h9Vvz+dXu4VuHzsi6dkRqi4byXHyLYHkVvSe/bO9y 05uMxpJBk6TPSEevZu88DA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3162 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mpvyg-0001uD-Ao; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:22:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <6ab5879d-8b0b-8205-a8c7-f2c1d61afba2@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Wed, 24 Nov 2021 19:51:09 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280026 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 19:51:09 +0300 > > It's possible that the crux of the matter is that the monospaced font > has been hand-picked and tweaked over the years, whereas the > proportional one is something automatically selected by the system. 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. > Comparison screenshot attached. Mine is much uglier.