Activity log for bug #727733

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2011-03-02 11:31:38 Paul Sladen bug added bug
2011-03-02 18:27:44 Barry Warsaw bug added subscriber Barry Warsaw
2011-03-02 18:43:57 Paul Sladen description Originally, when the initial monospace design was created to match the height of the standard Ubuntu fonts, the design box was +962/-198; +962 is the posiiton of the very top node on the double accents above ǞǠȪȬȰ. These were the UbuntuBeta Mono test versions up to R21 (100% scale of regular Ubuntu fonts) and were 1120×560 high being rendered into a cell of 1000×560. When used in a terminal positing the glyphs on this causes overlaps and a very close line-spacing; this is good for lines of code, but worse for reading symbols and punctuation. In order to prevent any overlaps, we then decided to scale down this to bring the design box into 1000 high so keeping the same design box ratio, that brings 1000/(962+198)=0.86207 (86)% scaling. There are the fonts UbuntuBeta Mono R21 fonts. However this R21 attempt did not give a very concise sizing horizontally so we have gone back to the original 100% version, scaled to 89.3% (500/560 glyph widths) to give us the 12pitch at 12pt, 2:1 matrix. Scaling slightly larger than the earlier 86% version meant that we had to tweak a few of the larger glyphs (like ǞǠȪȬȰ) to bring then into a 1000 unit design box, so we now have a design box of of 1000×500 (ascender/descender of 830/-170). Originally, when the initial monospace design was created to match the height of the standard Ubuntu fonts, the design box was +962/-198; +962 is the posiiton of the very top node on the double accents above ǞǠȪȬȰ. These were the UbuntuBeta Mono test versions up to R21 (100% scale of regular Ubuntu fonts) and were 1160×560 high being rendered into a cell of 1000×560. When used in a terminal positing the glyphs on this causes overlaps and a very close line-spacing; this is good for lines of code, but worse for reading symbols and punctuation. In order to prevent any overlaps, we then decided to scale down this to bring the design box into 1000 high so keeping the same design box ratio, that brings 1000/(962+198) =0.86207 (86)% scaling. There are the fonts UbuntuBeta Mono R21 fonts. However this R21 attempt did not give a very concise sizing horizontally so we have gone back to the original 100% version, scaled to 89.3% (500/560 glyph widths) to give us the 12pitch at 12pt, 2:1 matrix. Scaling slightly larger than the earlier 86% version meant that we had to tweak a few of the larger glyphs (like ǞǠȪȬȰ) to bring then into a 1000 unit design box, so we now have a design box of of 1000×500 (ascender/descender of 830/-170).
2011-03-02 23:23:25 Martin Pool attachment added launchpad.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/727733/+attachment/1881786/+files/launchpad.png
2011-03-02 23:41:23 Martin Pool bug added subscriber Martin Pool
2011-03-08 07:13:03 Paul Sladen tags tff-monospace uff-nogoodsolution uff-technical uff-monospace uff-nogoodsolution uff-technical
2011-03-08 08:14:03 Paul Sladen attachment added ubuntu-mono-nominal-size-r17-r21.pdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/727733/+attachment/1893352/+files/ubuntu-mono-nominal-size-r17-r21.pdf
2011-03-14 17:22:09 Malcolm Wooden attachment added UbuntuLucidaDejaVu.pdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/727733/+attachment/1908228/+files/UbuntuLucidaDejaVu.pdf
2011-03-18 10:04:40 Yann Dìnendal bug added subscriber Yann Dìnendal
2011-03-18 10:36:55 Paul Sladen attachment added ubuntu-light-with-mono-1120.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/727733/+attachment/1916994/+files/ubuntu-light-with-mono-1120.png
2011-03-18 14:41:26 Paul Sladen attachment added test.pdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/727733/+attachment/1917446/+files/test.pdf
2011-03-19 19:45:52 Paul Sladen attachment added box-drawing-90-degrees-ratio.pdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/727733/+attachment/1921530/+files/box-drawing-90-degrees-ratio.pdf
2011-04-01 22:00:32 Brewster Malevich bug added subscriber Brewster Malevich
2011-04-06 08:07:22 Soren Hansen bug added subscriber Soren Hansen
2011-04-12 22:47:11 Cody Boisclair bug added subscriber Cody Boisclair
2011-05-26 13:07:24 Denis Kurochkin bug added subscriber dkBrazz
2011-06-04 03:15:28 Paul Sladen ubuntu-font-family: status In Progress Fix Released
2011-06-04 03:19:15 Paul Sladen tags uff-monospace uff-nogoodsolution uff-technical uff-monospace uff-nogoodsolution uff-style uff-technical
2011-09-30 07:13:54 Jeremy Bícha bug added subscriber Jeremy Bicha
2011-10-02 13:37:05 Pikachu_2014 bug added subscriber Pikachu_2014