Bug 463036

Created attachment 317296 [details]
(Same as original attachment which possibly didnt go in)

Is it using bolded LiberationSans-Regular.ttf, or normal LiberationSans-Bold.ttf ?

I'm almost certain it's the -Bold.ttf. (It's whatever font firefox picks up). I saw it in the Windows font viewer and other font viewers and it looks similarly blurred. I also discovered that it's apparent (to my untrained eye at least) only at <= 12 pt, and it gets progressively worse at lower pt - it's really bad at 9 pt. Also discovered Mono Bold has a similar problem. Serif doesnt have it afaict.

Hi Need Real Name,

Ran fontforge and made a testing fix:

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-1.04.92.devel.tar.gz
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-1.04.92.devel.zip

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Could this please be reopened?

I started having this issue after the I installed the update mentioned by the Bodhi bot.

I attached a screenshot for reference.

Created attachment 327266 [details]
Screenshot for reference

Created attachment 350501 [details]
bold font at 11px in 1.04.93

My attachment (I dont know why one cant attach as one comments) shows that the problem still exists with 1.04.93, see the horrible u and w rendering at the photo caption comment and the section title. I've accordingly reopened the bug.

Sorry for the spamming, but the y and v are bad too, and possibly others (need better eyes than mine).

Thank you very much for providing info.

Please re-test w/ 1.05:

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.1.20090630.tar.gz

Needs bug #503430 to get precondition correct, with traditional kern table conserved.

I tried it with 1.05.1.20090706, and the u is much better but not perfect (see the word Tour in my attachment to follow, the u is closer to r than o). You can see other imperfections;
- w, y are quite blurry
- Just like u, t's kerning (if that's the right word) is off (see 'other').
- I can totally tell there are other problems but I cant figure out what they are, need a font designer to really identify and fix them.

Created attachment 354254 [details]
With 1.05.1.20090706

Thanks for test results. I am currently fixing the kern table issue and hope such fix would resolve this problem at once. I guess this bug was related to missing kern table, too.

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Assuming this is still a problem?  So moving to f12.

The blurriness have been worked on with cleaning up in those glyphs and applied auto-instruct for hinting. I am sorry that will not work on the hinting manually for short term. The archive and RPMs are as follows:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=171721
http://liberation-fonts.googlecode.com/files/liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.3.20100506.zip

For the kerning issues, are they reproducible on version 1.02? If so, please file a separate ticket at: http://code.google.com/p/liberation-fonts/issues/entry . If not, I will still fix that but I don't guarantee if this font could have same metrics as Arial in Bold style.