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Slightly off-topic, but does the aliasing on the fonts look a bit weird to you?.

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Yeah i've noticed that occasionally when playing around with the example, not quite sure what to do about it, doesn't seem to be majorly noticeable / disruptive though. If anyone wants to work it out, it's using freetype to render a glyph bitmap, a rust-graphic's Texture is made from the bitmap, both then get cached in the UIContext and rendered by rust-graphics' Context::image(&texture) in whatever widget fn uses it.

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Perhaps its a font hinting issue? Does Dense-Regular.otf support hinting?

Here's a side-by-side comparison of Arial and Dense-Regular:

Arial renders fine.

Or maybe I'm just seeing things.

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Yeah agreed, Arial looks much "cleaner" in that example.

re font hinting, I'm not sure! I haven't had a lot of experience with font rendering - Dense-Regular.otf was the first font I came across that I liked aesthetically when looking through a "top 100 free fonts" list haha.

If hinting is the issue, I really wouldn't mind if it was swapped out for a different default font that does support hinting, though it would be nice to find something modern/minimal/sleek if we do 👍

I was thinking of changing UIContext::new() to take a font name as a string, so a user can just add whatever font they want to the assets folder and then type it in on the highest level i.e. something like UIContext::new(Font("Arial.ttf")) / UIContext::new(DefaultFont) so hopefully there shouldn't be too much of an issue in the end.

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I'm a fan of Inconsolata, but that's more for programming (and it looks a bit less crisp than Arial):

It's under OFL license though, so that's nice.

Maybe something from The League of Movable Type?
Like junction?

As for changing UIContext::new(), I'd be in favor of a change like that.
It would certainly clean up font loading clutter on higher-levels.

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Maybe it's worth opening a "Choose a Default Font" issue and getting some ideas together there?

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I've got a big PR coming tonight with a new widget and some other smaller changes, I'll change the UIContext::new() signature while i'm at it 👍

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Would that be a issue for Piston or Conrod?
I think it'd be a good idea for Piston to choose a font, and use that to represent the whole project (e.g. in the logo).

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Here is an updated screenshot:

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