'u' character is rendered smaller than it should

[Aditya Bhargava]

On Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 the 'u' character is rendered smaller than it should (i.e. relative to the other characters). This seems to be the case only for certain sizes (e.g. 10pt) and also goes away if the scaling factor is increased above 1 (in the GNOME tweak tool). If I download the TTFs and install them manually, there is no problem.

[Aditya Bhargava (rightaditya)]

On closer inspection, it looks like all characters except for the 'u' are displayed *too large,* rather than the 'u' being too small. Zoom in on the picture and count the number of pixels for confirmation.

[Paride Legovini (paride)]

The report is against the version fonts-hack released with Xenial. Bionic and later include a new major version of the font, and ship only the TrueType files (my bet is that you were using the OTF version, which often renders worse on screen).

Can you confirm the problem is gone in the newer releases?

Thank you!

[Aditya Bhargava (rightaditya)]

I don't think I would have explicitly select the OTF version---if it was being used, it was being done behind the scenes. But I'm not seeing this issue on 18.04.2. Feel free to close if it's otherwise justified.