Comment 3 for bug 850486

Hello Josh. Thank you for the screenshots, it's always useful when somebody attaches a visual example of what they've spotted. The reason that it doesn't looking sharp, is because there's no hinting information … yet.

Currently Dalton Maag-font engineers Jason Campbell and Vincent Connare have been working on the Ubuntu Mono hinting, as noted in the update earlier at:

  https://design.canonical.com/2011/09/ubuntu-monospace-beta/

Hinting is a time-consuming (and optional) step at the end of font production to enable a human designer/engineer to give the computer "hints" about how to distort a glyph at a particular pixel size, such that the horizontal and vertical stems of the character will end up being fitted to the available grid of pixels.

It's not possible yet, because it hasn't been done. However, when the hinting has been finished it will be possible to render the sharp (distorted) forms that you're after seeing with your preferred rendering setup.

Is that a useful answer, is there anything I missed, or could try and address in more detail?