Bug 682677

Summary: Wrong thinkness for letter 'u'
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Fabian Greffrath <fabian+redhat>
Component: liberation-fontsAssignee: Pravin Satpute <psatpute>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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See the attached screenshot I took from the SPON website, especially the word "um"
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Artifact for character "u" when employing Liberation fonts none

Description Fabian Greffrath 2011-03-07 09:03:52 UTC 
Created attachment 482628 [details]
See the attached screenshot I took from the SPON website, especially the word "um"

Originally reported by Michael Biebl to the Debian Bug Tracking System, see <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616620>:

Hi,

since upgrading ttf-liberation from 1.05.2.20091019-4 to
1.06.0.20100721-1, the letter 'u' and 'U' has become much "thiner" in
comparison to other letters. See the attached screenshot I took from the
SPON website, especially the word "um".

I downgraded to the squeeze version again and the problem is gone, so
this is a regression of the new upstream release.

Cheers,
Michael

> Is only the sans variant affected or also the serif one?

Hard to say, as the serif letter is completely different. I only recognized this
with the sans version.

I have to add, that I use LCD, RGB, and full hinting
Comment 1 Pravin Satpute 2011-03-08 10:12:02 UTC 
i have not done any change specifically to 'u' and 'U' characters, but will check those again
Comment 2 Joachim Frieben 2011-03-08 15:28:25 UTC 
Created attachment 482925 [details]
Artifact for character "u" when employing Liberation fonts

Issue still present for liberation-fonts-1.06.0.20100721-5.fc15 as demonstrated by the attached screenshot. The issue only occurs for the particular font size used in the title: after zooming in or zooming out, the rendering is even again.
(Note: attachment 482628 [details] is broken, only the external link is displayed instead of the image itself).
Comment 3 Fabian Greffrath 2011-03-08 15:48:27 UTC 
The same headline is rendered perfectly normal in Epiphany, regardless of the zoom factor.
Comment 4 Pravin Satpute 2011-03-09 05:26:09 UTC 
As per comment #2 and #3 it looks like hinting issues.
Yet i have not touched hinting instructions of liberation fonts :)
dunno should i try for something for specific size (please let me know the size) mentioned in #2, 

I did not able to reproduce same in fedora 14 gedit and openoffice
Comment 5 Pravin Satpute 2012-02-09 17:48:13 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 715309 ***