Hinting leaves 'e' too heavy

[Paul Sladen]

Testing with Ubuntu Beta set as Menu font; Under Applications->Accessories, the 'e' looks too heavy and the 'o' looks too light.

[Malcolm Wooden (malcolm-daltonmaag)]

Agreed - e will be widened by one pixel to make more open and match o width. o will have g/s hints amended.
New versions will be in Ubuntu Regular Beta 7.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

The fix for this does indeed make the tracking width of the 'e' one pixel wider, but does not actually expand the glyph to fill that space, causing a three-pixel space after the 'e'. This is Regular, 0.007, 13 pixels/em.

[Malcolm Wooden (malcolm-daltonmaag)]

Regular - 0.008 is also like this. The hdmx for greyscale and b/w needed to be aligned. 0.009 will be fixed.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Malcom: is sanity checking the tables for equivalence something we can automate with a bit of Python?

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

ubuntu-private-fonts (0.1.10~ppa1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Regular:
      + Misplaced accent above lowercase y corrected. (LP: #619951)
      + Hyphen made 1 pixel heavier in sizes 32-36ppm.
      + Respaced hypen in 8-16 ppm. (LP: #608758)
      + Respace s in 12-18ppm to look less like a 5.
      + Period made 1 pixel lighter az 27 ppm.
      + Lowercase w made wider at 22ppm.
      + Small size (8-9ppm) greyscale improved. (LP: #621456)
      + Accent positions improved where possible. (LP: #622385)
    - Regular & Italic:
      + x height increased 1 pixel at 20,22,24 ppm.
    - Bold Italic:
      + Some Greek Poly glyphs adjusted spacing.
    - All weights:
      + U+0162, U+0163 now have cedilla accents. (LP: #615565)

 -- Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Aug 2010
13:26:32 +0200

Alledgedly (see comment #4) this was fixed in 0.009 which is in the above .deb.