Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 139194
Letter 'ö' needs hinting.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:54 EST
Description of problem: The letter 'ö' in Luxi Sans Typewriter at size 6 needs improved hinting. It should look like an 'o', except for the dots, but instead the right side of the ring is too thick. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): freetype-2.1.9-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC3 and update. 2. Create test account and log in. 3. Go to http://www.alexander.bostrom.net/ouml.html 4. Try again with subpixel rendering enabled. Actual results: With and without subpixel rendering, the right side of the ring is thicker than the left side. Expected results: The left and right side of the ring should be equally thick and also be equal to an 'o'.
Created attachment 106651 [details] Screenshot of problem without subpixel rendering,
Created attachment 106652 [details] Screenshot of problem with subpixel rendering enabled.
There is no such font as Luxi Sans Typewriter 'Lucida Typewriter' is a bitmap font as we ship it. (B&H may have released a scalable version; is's reasonably close to the Lucida Console shipped with Windows.) 'Luxi Mono 'is the scalable font. But it's serifed, so not the font you are looking at. So, I don't know what font is in your screenshot, and thus can't do anything with this bug report. It *might* be Luxi Sans - your screenshot doesn't look monospace. But I'm not sure. Also, can you attach non-scaled images? (Maybe a crop of small portion. The scaled images make telling anything about the font hinting basically impossible
The screenshots aren't scaled, but yes, full screenshots are overkill. I actually did reproduce the effect in a couple of word processors, but that was a bad idea as well... But anyway, it was both a typo (wrote Luxi, meant Lucida Sans Typewriter) and not a pure FC3 installation. Sorry! The font I'm actually looking at is "Lucida Sans Typewriter" from java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0-2jpp.nosrc.rpm. It's easy to reproduce the problem at sizes 9 to 14, if you're interested.
If the screenshots aren't scaled, then you have a lot more serious display problems then a bit of mishinting on the ö.. I don't really think there is anything I can do on this issue with a font that doesn't come with FC3.
Ah, just switched to firefox recentlly, and didn't realize it tended to scale images down without any visible indication other than extreme ugliness.