This is a problem with the auto-hinter, not with the font. With the font's manual hinting, macrons and tildes are distinguishable at all sizes down to 9px and possibly smaller. With the auto-hinter, Ā and à are distinguishable from 12px upwards, but most of the others aren't distinguishable until 19px upwards.
** Attachment added: "screenshot of the problem characters from 7px to 19px" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/655619/+attachment/4263843/+files/Tildes%20vs%20macrons.png ** Project changed: ubuntu-font-family => freetype (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu) Milestone: 1.00 => None ** Summary changed: - Hinting: tilde/macron confusion at small sizes (ãñõÕ) + Auto-hinter muddles tildes/macrons in Ubuntu font <19px (ñĀÃāãŌÕōõ) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to freetype in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655619 Title: Auto-hinter muddles tildes/macrons in Ubuntu font <19px (ñĀÃāãŌÕōõ) Status in “freetype” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: 1. Copy and paste this line into the address field of a Web browser: data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,<p style="font-family:Ubuntu;font-size:20;"> ñĀÃāãŌÕōõ</p> 2. Reduce the font-size until the tildes ˜ become indistinguishable from the macrons ¯. Rendered in 13pt Regular Sample Glyphs: õ Description: At size 18 and less õ looks o that doesn't have tilde but simple line on it. I don't know if it's a bug but there may be different similar letters in other languages. Õ is estonian font. UA String: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100915 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/655619/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
