Ubuntu Font Family

Qt default font rendering: Hinting on Netbook/lower resolution - font looks really bad

Bug #621456 reported by Rich Johnson
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Ubuntu Font Family
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
Ubuntu Font Family 0.009

Bug Description

I am running the font on various machines all of which it looks gorgeous at higher resolutions. On my netbook, a Dell Mini 10v, running Kubuntu Maverick with the latest updates, which has a lower resolution, the fonts are really ugly and looked scrunched up. I have attached a screenshot to this report for your review. I have played with the various font settings without any luck.

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Rich Johnson (nixternal) wrote :
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Rich Johnson (nixternal) wrote :

FYI, the fonts are running the stock/default size for the netbooks. Other fonts, such as DejaVu look fine at a lower resolution and smaller font.

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Rich Johnson (nixternal) wrote :

desktopFont=UbuntuBeta,7,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
font=UbuntuBeta,7,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
menuFont=UbuntuBeta,7,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
smallestReadableFont=UbuntuBeta,6,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
taskbarFont=UbuntuBeta,7,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
toolBarFont=UbuntuBeta,7,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0

first number is the size. The rest I have no darn clue.

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 621456] Re: Netbook/lower resolution - font looks really bad

Hi Rich - are all the other font settings the same, such as hinting and
aliasing?

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : Re: Netbook/lower resolution - font looks really bad

There are bits of variation in the preferences requested of Freetype via the various toolkits, there's a high-level bug report (bug #621198), but also some individual symptoms (bug #617862).

Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
summary: - Netbook/lower resolution - font looks really bad
+ Qt default font rendering: Hinting on Netbook/lower resolution - font
+ looks really bad
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

ubuntu-private-fonts (0.1.10~ppa1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Regular:
      + Misplaced accent above lowercase y corrected. (LP: #619951)
      + Hyphen made 1 pixel heavier in sizes 32-36ppm.
      + Respaced hypen in 8-16 ppm. (LP: #608758)
      + Respace s in 12-18ppm to look less like a 5.
      + Period made 1 pixel lighter az 27 ppm.
      + Lowercase w made wider at 22ppm.
      + Small size (8-9ppm) greyscale improved. (LP: #621456)
      + Accent positions improved where possible. (LP: #622385)
    - Regular & Italic:
      + x height increased 1 pixel at 20,22,24 ppm.
    - Bold Italic:
      + Some Greek Poly glyphs adjusted spacing.
    - All weights:
      + U+0162, U+0163 now have cedilla accents. (LP: #615565)

 -- Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:26:32 +0200

Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
milestone: none → 0.009
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