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Created attachment 2146981 [details] Screenshot highlighting pathological hyphen placement in Liberation Mono font Description of problem: In the Liberation Mono font distributed with Fedora 42 (and possibly everywhere the font is distributed), the hyphen character is placed 30% too low relative to the basic ASCII glyphs. It appears below the cross of a lowercase "x", making it indistinguishable from an underscore when rendered at a usable size (see screenshot). There are certain stylistic liberties available when crafting a font, and this is not one of them. It is simply a bug to place the hyphen at such a low position. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): liberation-fonts-all.noarch 1:2.1.5-13.fc42 liberation-mono-fonts.noarch 1:2.1.5-13.fc42 liberation-sans-fonts.noarch 1:2.1.5-13.fc42 liberation-serif-fonts.noarch 1:2.1.5-13.fc42 How reproducible: Install and use the font. Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf install liberation-mono-fonts 2. select the Liberation Mono font in some application 3. type two words connected by a hyphen, then type two words connected by an underscore Actual results: At a usable size, the two pairs of words appear identical. Expected results: Every font should place the hyphen at least parallel to the cross of a lowercase "x", usually higher. Additional info:
I can't reproduce in current Fedora Rawhide Workstation Live image. Note also F42 is no longer supported. More details are needed: what application are you using? Maybe a screenshot. You could try whichfont to get additional information perhaps. Also maybe pango-view or gnome-text-editor. Also the liberation fonts are very stable: it seems highly unlikely they have started to misbehave.
Also you desktop is probably quite relevant information.