Liberation Serif 'Q' symbol looks bold

[Patrick Horn]

Binary package hint: ttf-liberation

I am using Ubuntu 9.04.

ttf-liberation:
  Installed: 1.04.93-1
  Candidate: 1.04.93-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.04.93-1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

libfreetype6:
  Installed: 2.3.9-4ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 2.3.9-4ubuntu0.1
libxft2:
  Installed: 2.1.13-3ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.1.13-3ubuntu1

The capital letter 'Q' looks bold/antialiased for all sizes in regular Liberation Serif font below 14pt in openOffice (Display Size 18 in fontforge).

In addition to looking more bold, it is sometimes bigger than the letter O. However, at some sizes it is smaller. It could be a bug in the TTF file if the points are not at integer pixel coordinates.

I will attach a screenshot showing the difference, size 12 in OpenOffice.

You can open "LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf" inside fontforge, select Metrics -> "Kern Pair Closeup". Then, type "Q" in the first box and "O" in the second box. Then, type any number from 10 to 17 into "Display SIze". Below size 18, you see a pretty big size difference between the two letters. If you try size 18 or above, both letters look perfectly correct.

All of the letters in italics and in bold look correct--the unformatted Q is the only one with a problem. In fact, if fixing this is too complicated, I would prefer an italic Q to replace the regular Q. Also, any ideas why the font in general looks so different below size 18?

[Erdal Ronahi (erdalronahi)]

I am having this bug in Debian Lenny, ttf-liberation version 1.04.93-1.