Mono: No hinting yet - Ubuntu Beta Mono font looks jagged in Netbeans and terrible with ClearType
Bug #820493 reported by
DJ Belieny
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Font Family |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When using the Ubuntu Beta Mono font in Netbeans the font is somewhat jagged and the fonts do not show as smooth as Monospaced or Monaco, see attached screenshot for comparison. Please note that if the fonts are on size 14 or 16 the issue is even more accentuated.
Related branches
summary: |
- Ubuntu Beta Mono font looks jagged in Netbeans + Mono: No hinting yet - Ubuntu Beta Mono font looks jagged in Netbeans |
tags: | added: uff-hinting uff-mono |
summary: |
Mono: No hinting yet - Ubuntu Beta Mono font looks jagged in Netbeans + and terrible with ClearType |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
milestone: | none → 0.80 |
tags: | added: uff-mono-no-hinting |
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Hello DJ, the picture is using black-and-white rendering which requires manual hinting information in the font to produce.
The Ubuntu Mono in the beta test PPA hasn't been hinted yet. The reason for this is that the engineering to add hinting is very time-consuming and so it's best to be sure that the shapes and style of the font itself is correct before moving on to the hinting stage.
Hinting of the four Ubuntu Mono fonts is currently underway and I've received a snapshot of the Regular already. When the hinted versions are available the jaggies should go away (see the attached screenshot of your "The quick brown" re-rendered with hinting.
BTW, looking at that, it looks like a couple of the hinted letters could do with more work (the 'w' is not symmetric). Would you be interested in helping to /really/ test the hinted forms?