"Sans Italic" is noticably thinner than "Sans"
Bug #176392 reported by
Alexander Jones
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ttf-dejavu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Arne Goetje |
Bug Description
As of a recent update, It seems the "Sans" alias is a bit broken. It's supposed to map onto DejaVu Sans as far as I am aware, and while this is true for the "Regular" variant, the "Italic" variant seems to be using DejaVu Sans Condensed.
You can check this yourself by installing "specimen" and opening the "Sans" typeface. Now compare it with "DejaVu Sans".
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 14 16:50:00 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelMo
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Changed in fontconfig: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
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I tried setting my desktop fonts all to DejaVu Sans to remove the ambiguity, but it seems that programs (in particular notification- daemon) are still using an italic form of Condensed rather than the Italic variant.
So maybe this is a bug in DejaVu Sans. I also notice that there is no Condensed Italic, and Condensed Bold is in fact listed twice. Strange!