Lack of Hinting: Mono looks terrible in Windows Cleartype
Bug #827436 reported by
Sean Palmer
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #820493: Mono: No hinting yet - Ubuntu Beta Mono font looks jagged in Netbeans and terrible with ClearType.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu Font Family |
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Bug Description
Regular Ubuntu looks very good in Windows, but the UbuntuBeta Mono looks really bad. The attached screenshot shows both. If I go down to 11 or 10 points, it looks OK. Also, at 9 points, horizontal lines are missing (the middle of 'e' and 'a', the tops of 'A' and 'R'). But size 8 looks OK again. Is this a known thing, or ClearType hinting hasn't been added yet? It's odd that the normal Ubuntu font looks good and this one is a mess.
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| Sean Palmer (sp332) wrote | #1 |
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| Cody Boisclair (codeman38) wrote | #2 |
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| Sean Palmer (sp332) wrote | #3 |
| summary: |
- Mono looks terrible in Windows Cleartype + Lack of Hinting: Mono looks terrible in Windows Cleartype |
| tags: |
added: uff-cleartype uff-hinting uff-mono removed: cleartype hinting |
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| Sean Palmer (sp332) wrote | #4 |
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This is a known thing-- the font still hasn't been hinted yet. (Though I am curious when the hinted version is supposed to be released, as I too am anxiously awaiting it for my Windows partition...)