Bug 1564719 - hinting of "ti" ligature does not match other letters, x-height is slightly too low
Summary: hinting of "ti" ligature does not match other letters, x-height is slightly t...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lato-fonts
Version: 27
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Mohamed El Morabity
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-07 02:31 UTC by Dan Callaghan
Modified: 2018-11-30 20:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-11-30 20:51:37 UTC
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2018-04-07 02:31 UTC, Dan Callaghan
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Description Dan Callaghan 2018-04-07 02:31:24 UTC
Created attachment 1418442 [details]
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I noticed this after upgrading Fedora 26->27, specifically from:

freetype-2.7.1-10.fc26.x86_64
lato-fonts-2.015-3.fc26.noarch

to:

freetype-2.8-8.fc27.x86_64
lato-fonts-2.015-4.fc27.noarch

Not sure if the problem is in Freetype or the Lato font. Rendering of all fonts on my system changed visibly after upgrading, but Lato in particular changed quite noticeably. However the only problem seems to be with the "ti" ligature in Lato, so I assume it is some wrong/missing hinting data on that ligature. I don't see any problem with other ligatures like "fi".

Screenshot showing the problem is attached.

This is using Lato, size 12, as my GTK UI font in Xorg:

$ xrdb -q | grep Xft
Xft.antialias:	1
Xft.hinting:	1
Xft.hintstyle:	hintslight
Xft.rgba:	rgb
Xft.dpi:	110

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 16:17:47 UTC
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