Hinting: Current: £ and € ambiguity at 13/15 ppem (difficult to read at small sizes)
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Ubuntu Font Family | Status tracked in Phased-beta | |||||
Dalton-maag-expansion |
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Phased-beta |
Fix Released
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Low
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Bug Description
I'm using Kubuntu Netbook, which defaults to size 7 & 8 fonts. At these sizes, the £ and € symbols become a bit difficult on the eyes. I'm attaching a screenshot comparing the Ubuntu font and Liberation Sans at sizes 7, 8, and 12 so the difference can be seen.
Mainly, I think the bottom line of £ needs to extend further to the left like it does at size 12 (at sizes 7 & 8 it almost looks like a C with a graphical artifact making it slightly crooked) and that the €'s bars should be a bit closer together since at sizes 7 & 8 it turns into a muddle of horizontal lines with the top edge, two bars, and bottom edge all being equidistant.
The screen is running at its native 1366x768 and is 11.6" (256mm x 144mm) making a DPI of 135. And yes, KDE obeys the X DPI. The DPI is being forced with `xrandr --dpi 135` in /etc/kde4/
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description: | updated |
summary: |
- £ and € are difficult at small sizes + Hinting: Current: £ and € ambiguity at 13/15 ppem (difficult to read at + small sizes) |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
milestone: | 1.00 → 0.71 |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
milestone: | 0.71 → mono |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
135 dpi at 7/8 pt makes this 13/15 ppem, this appears to be rendered with hinting enabled, so I can see the potential for tweaking it. Perhaps in the hinting for the node at the bottom-left of the £ would do with pushing out a bit, so that the rasterised shape has less of a curved/'C' appearance at smaller sizes; eg. more akin to the Hebrew bet ('ב') in reflection and a more definite corner.
maco: to confirm, please can you retake the screenshot with the magic '' character pasted in after each of the pound signs. This will confirm the hinting and ppems in use.