2008-12-01, 02:01
Suggestion: Place comments inside the font.xml file to indicate which font entry is used by which screen element. This obviates the trial-and-error method for those looking to change the size for specific elements.
Suggestion: Chosen font types should be tested for legibility as well as "clipping" (being truncated by too-small layout). On a 32" 4:3 NTSC TV, even the largest available font scale ("arial bigger"), have fonts too small to be seen in movie/music listings. At the same time, the fonts chosen were too large for the Weather screen, resulting in clipping.
Overall, the fonts and layouts look to be emphasized for HDTVs, and regular CRT TVs suffer for legibility, because of too-dense layouts and small-size fonts. Would suggest an optional low-density layout with large-size fonts, that stop short of clipping.
Suggestion: Chosen font types should be tested for legibility as well as "clipping" (being truncated by too-small layout). On a 32" 4:3 NTSC TV, even the largest available font scale ("arial bigger"), have fonts too small to be seen in movie/music listings. At the same time, the fonts chosen were too large for the Weather screen, resulting in clipping.
Overall, the fonts and layouts look to be emphasized for HDTVs, and regular CRT TVs suffer for legibility, because of too-dense layouts and small-size fonts. Would suggest an optional low-density layout with large-size fonts, that stop short of clipping.