Mono: Shaded glyph resolution and tilabilty in Ubuntu Mono (U+2591, U+2592, U+2593)
Bug #873944 reported by
Artis Rozentāls
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Font Family |
Fix Committed
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Low
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Shiraaz Gabru | ||
fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The shaded glyphs in Ubuntu Mono, while way ahead of just about any other outline font simply by not leaving gaps in gnome-terminal, still suffers some of the common problems.
First of the level of detail is much higher than the rest of the glyphs, leading to artefacts at small sizes as well as color shifts (apparently when subpixel rendering tries to cram in all the detail). It also makes them look unbalanced next to letters with larger sizes.
The other one is tiling. Aside from the top-bottom of U+2593 all the glyphs start and end in the same configuration, this creates obvious seems when they are placed next to each other.
The attached image illustrates each of these.
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
milestone: | 0.81 → 0.9x-design |
milestone: | 0.9x-design → 0.9x-hinting |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
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Yup. Virtually all other monospace fonts are based around a "knights move" pattern on an 8x16 grid (for 25%, 75%), and a 1x1 diagonal or 1x2 double diagonal grid (for 50%).