Mono: Smaller than other Fonts (height)
Bug #822357 reported by
Slartibartfas
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #727733: Technical: Mono: discern level of scaling to fit in terminal cell.
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Bug Description
platform: xubuntu 10.10 with xfce-4.8
medium: screen
hinting: slight
The UbuntuBetaMono font looks smaller when compared to Liberation Mono or Droid Sans Mono at the same pt size. As shown in the screen shots, it's line height is smaller.
Changing hinting/ antialising does not change this behaviour.
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| Slartibartfas (voigt-m) wrote | #1 |
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| Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote | #3 |
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Hello voigt-m, I've marked this as a duplicate of bug #727733 ("Technical: Mono: discern level of scaling to fit in terminal cell") as that has most of the detailed discussion and technical background that you're likely interested in.
Yes, the Ubuntu Mono is 12% smaller than the Ubuntu proportional at a given point size.
Technical texts—such as manuals—frequently set prose in a proportional font, with items such as variable names or commands in set in monospace. In Droid/Deja Vu/Liberation the x-heights are basically the same for the both the monospace and proportional members of the typefaces.
The twelve-percent size reduction for in Ubuntu Mono means that in runs of text where both proportional and monospace text appear in the same line, there is now a slight visual difference. On average text rendered in a monospace will tend to be wider than a proportional font, but with the Ubuntu Mono 12% scaling reduction this helps it to keep the overall pace of the text about the same. It also gives it the same 2:1 aspect ratio and 500x1000 bounding.
The 500x1000 bounding box is also used by Raph Levien's Inconsolata, which you should find to be an almost identical size to Ubuntu Mono.
(Don't worry, this is not related to antialiasing or hinting in this case; the actual vector outlines are slightly smaller intentionally—you may wish to bump the font size up by one notch in the Terminal to compensate).