Description of problem: When viewing the font within the gnome-terminal and various applications, the m overlaps following characters. This overlapping make readability difficult when viewing the fonts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dejavu-fonts-2.7.0-1.fc6 dejavu-fonts-experimental-2.7.0-1.fc6 dejavu-fonts-makedefault-2.7.0-1.fc6 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fonts 2. Type characters starting with m in them 3. See next characters Actual results: Could not make out clearly what the character was supposed to be. Expected results: Sufficient spacing between characters to allow clarity. Additional info:
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Created attachment 132132 [details] even worse renderiing Though I set my settings for the system to DejaVu, monospace was chosen and the overlapping is even to a greater degree. This is what system settings looked like with monospace and system settings set to DejaVu.
Thanks for the report. The first shot looks like DejaVu Sans Mono - and I agree m looks sqhashed but there's little you can do with m in monospace - it's the widest latin leter and it has to fit in the same mono grid as other letters Your second screenshot OTOH shows a serif font, so it's certainly not DejaVu Sabs Mono so I believe this is NOTMYBUG I'll open a bug in the dejavu bugzilla for the first screen, but as I wrote given in monospace m must have the same width as other letters, and the width of its lines can not shrink below 1 pixel, I don't really see what the designers can do
Perhaps you do not mean overlapping, but would like the font letter spacing wider?
Closing upstream, please follow the freedesktop bug now https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7466
I'll follow the upstream bug. I did however find out that reducing the dpi from its 94 dpi setting to a setting in the 70s looks a lot better and there is not that same problem as noted above. I understand now what is meant by monospacing anyway. Attached below is for comparison.
Created attachment 132153 [details] reducing dp1 by 20 dpi The spacing was set to 94 dpi originally. Reducing the dpi seems to make the fonts more readable.