Ubuntu Font Family

Tracking: hyphen placed too close to letter glyphs

Bug #608758 reported by Dmitry Agafonov on 2010-07-22

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu Font Family	Fix Released	High	Unassigned	Ubuntu Font Family 0.009

Bug Description

Rendered in 8pt Regular

Sample Glyphs:

-й -ц -у -к -е -н -г -ш -щ -з -х -ъ -ф -ы -в -а -п -р -о -л -д -ж -э -я -ч -с -м -и -т -ь -б -ю

Description:

8pt, in OpenOffice and on this test page — minus (-) gets too close to letters.
Smaller or bigger letter size renders better and clearly separated.

UA String:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4

Tags:

Revision history for this message

Dmitry Agafonov (dmitry-agafonov) wrote on 2010-07-22:

sample render in ooo Edit (2.5 KiB, image/png)

Paul Sladen (sladen) on 2010-07-23

summary:	- minus gets too close to letters + Tracking: hyphen placed too close to letter glyphs
visibility:	private → public
Changed in ubuntufontbetatesting:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Low

Paul Sladen (sladen) on 2010-08-18

Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
importance:	Low → High

Revision history for this message

Malcolm Wooden (malcolm-daltonmaag) wrote on 2010-08-20:

Respaced for next release

Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

Paul Sladen (sladen) on 2010-08-20

tags:

added: uff-cyrillic

Paul Sladen (sladen) on 2010-08-29

tags:

added: uff-latin

Revision history for this message

Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote on 2010-09-03:

ubuntu-private-fonts (0.1.10~ppa1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Regular:
      + Misplaced accent above lowercase y corrected. (LP: #619951)
      + Hyphen made 1 pixel heavier in sizes 32-36ppm.
      + Respaced hypen in 8-16 ppm. (LP: #608758)
      + Respace s in 12-18ppm to look less like a 5.
      + Period made 1 pixel lighter az 27 ppm.
      + Lowercase w made wider at 22ppm.
      + Small size (8-9ppm) greyscale improved. (LP: #621456)
      + Accent positions improved where possible. (LP: #622385)
    - Regular & Italic:
      + x height increased 1 pixel at 20,22,24 ppm.
    - Bold Italic:
      + Some Greek Poly glyphs adjusted spacing.
    - All weights:
      + U+0162, U+0163 now have cedilla accents. (LP: #615565)