Style: Greek 'γ' (gamma) and 'ν' (nu) ambiguity
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Font Family |
Opinion
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Wishlist
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Shiraaz Gabru |
Bug Description
Rendered in 24pt Regular
Sample Glyphs:
γ
Description:
The way the letter γ (U03B3) is styled is different from the typical you would expect in a Greek font. https:/
A Greek user would notice the peculiarity in this character and should take a bit to get used to it. What a Greek speaker expects is the 'leg' of γ to be vertical.
If γ follows a design principle then I believe it's OK to have it like that.
I believe one requirement here is that γ and ν look different.
Currently γ looks very similar to the ν from DejaVu Sans (currently default Ubuntu font) but with a 'leg'.
See http://
UA String:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100716 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.7
visibility: | private → public |
Changed in ubuntufontbetatesting: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
summary: |
- Letter γ ((U03B3) has an untypical style + Letter 'γ' (gamma, U+03B3) has an untypical style |
tags: | added: uff-greek uff-style |
summary: |
- Letter 'γ' (gamma, U+03B3) has an untypical style + Style: Greek 'γ' (gamma) and 'ν' (nu) confusion |
summary: |
- Style: Greek 'γ' (gamma) and 'ν' (nu) confusion + Style: Greek 'γ' (gamma) and 'ν' (nu) ambiguity |
tags: | added: uff-ambiguity |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
assignee: | nobody → Shiraaz Gabru (shiraaz) |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
status: | Invalid → Opinion |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
milestone: | none → 1.0.0 |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
importance: | High → Wishlist |
description: | updated |
There isn't a correct style in this regard. The designs were reviewed by an expert native speaking Greek typographer with about 20 years of experience.
We don't think there is any ambiguity between the 'γ' (gamma) and 'ν' (nu), most notable the γ has a leg.
You might be interested in a recent blog post on the development of the Greek, entitled 'It’s all about Greek', http:// design. canonical. com/2010/ 09/it%E2% 80%99s- all-about- greek/