Bug 1626909

Summary:	[freetype] bold font weight applied in gnome-terminal depending on the font size
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joachim Frieben <jfrieben>
Component:	freetype	Assignee:	Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	29	CC:	ajax, caillon+fedoraproject, cosimo.cecchi, fonts-bugs, gnome-sig, john.j5live, kevin, mclasen, mkasik, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann
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Description Joachim Frieben 2018-09-10 05:35:16 UTC

Description of problem:
For current Fedora 29, the bold variant of font "Clean Regular" included in package xorg-x11-fonts-misc is applied or not in gnome-terminal depending on the font size. As a consequence, e.g., the output of the 'top' command is rendered with normal font weight alone at font size 15 but correctly mixed with normal and bold font weight at font size 16.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gtk3-3.24.0-3.fc29

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Include collection of miscellaneous X11 fonts in the font path of gnome-terminal.
2. Choose font "Clean Regular" with size 15 in gnome-terminal.
3. Run 'top'.

Actual results:
Output is printed with characters of normal weight alone.

Expected results:
Output is printed with mixed characters of normal and bold weight just like when the terminal font is the default font.

Additional info:
- After setting the font size to 16, the output of 'top' looks as expected.
- The issue is absent from current Fedora 28.
- The issue persists after downgrading fontconfig to fontconfig-2.13.0-8.fc29 which is equivalent to fontconfig-2.13.0-4.fc28 included in Fedora 28.
- Fedora 29 includes gnome-terminal-3.28.2-4.fc29 which appears to be equivalent to gnome-terminal-3.28.2-2.fc28 included in Fedora 28.

Comment 1 Joachim Frieben 2018-11-21 19:30:59 UTC

Issue persists for gtk3-3.24.1-1.fc29.

Comment 2 Joachim Frieben 2019-04-28 16:37:40 UTC

Running 'pango-view --font="Clean Bold" --backend=ft2 -t "PANGO font rendering"' shows a font of normal weight whereas backends "cairo" and "xft" lead to the sample text being rendered with the bold font. This behaviour points to a problem with the freetype package.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 19:32:39 UTC

This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 22:09:49 UTC

Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is
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