** Summary changed: - Hinting/Kerning: "plan" spacing mismatched + Ubuntu font's hooked lower-case "l" is autohinted with uneven left/right space
** Description changed: - Rendered in 24pt Regular + 1. Load the attached HTML file in an app that uses the Ubuntu font's manual hinting. + <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191181257/669571-plan.html> + What you see: In the sequences "pla", "ple", "plo", there is equal space left and right of the stem of the "l". + <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191180442/669571-hinted-manually.png> - Sample Glyphs: + 2. Load the same file in an app that uses the Freetype autohinter. - plan + What you see: The spacing on either side of the stem is sometimes different. + <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191181208/669571-hinted-automatically.png> - - Description: - - The "l" appears much closer to the "a" than to the "p". The problem is - especially apparent at size 24, but it also appeared at other sizes when - going through them. - - The problem appears to be with the "l" rather than the "p", and some - other trigrams produce spacings that seem a bit off as well. (See "ali" - or "nlz" for example.) - - - UA String: - - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.11 (KHTML, like - Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/9.0.562.0 Chrome/9.0.562.0 Safari/534.11 + What you should see: There is equal space left and right of the stem of + the "l". ** Tags added: autohinter -- 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/669571 Title: Ubuntu font's hooked lower-case "l" is autohinted with uneven left/right space Status in “freetype” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 1. Load the attached HTML file in an app that uses the Ubuntu font's manual hinting. <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191181257/669571-plan.html> What you see: In the sequences "pla", "ple", "plo", there is equal space left and right of the stem of the "l". <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191180442/669571-hinted-manually.png> 2. Load the same file in an app that uses the Freetype autohinter. What you see: The spacing on either side of the stem is sometimes different. <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191181208/669571-hinted-automatically.png> What you should see: There is equal space left and right of the stem of the "l". To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/669571/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
