Bug 1031878 - Font trouble in F20 beta
Summary: Font trouble in F20 beta
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abattis-cantarell-fonts
Version: 20
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cosimo Cecchi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-19 03:53 UTC by Andrew Ter-Grigoryan
Modified: 2015-06-29 12:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-06-29 12:59:14 UTC
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Description Andrew Ter-Grigoryan 2013-11-19 03:53:52 UTC
There are a couple of issues I've noticed with the Cantarell font in F20 beta, related to hinting.

For some odd reason, turning the hinting with Tweak Tool from 'medium' down to 'slight' results in a SHARPER display. By default, the font in F20 isn't quite hinted enough ... and it baffles me why turning it down has the inverse effect!

Secondly, I've noticed at least one distortion within the default font in F20, and that is with the bold "r" at some sizes (notice that the curving branch of the letter is too high ... this is also fixed by turning the hinting down to 'slight.'

Hopefully by the time F20 launches, we'll have a crisply rendering Cantarell font without kinks.

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