bugFree UCS Outline Fonts - Bugs: bug #22266, excessive overshoot - FreeSansBold

 
 

bug #22266: excessive overshoot - FreeSansBold

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sat 09 Feb 2008 01:54:56 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  individual character(s) Severity:  4 - Important
Item Group:  bulk text appearance poor Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  * 2006-01-26
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Fri 02 Sep 2011 07:25:45 AM UTC, comment #5: 

The situation has greatly improved on Linux.

Modification of the Blues values have had an effect, but recent versions of the font rendering software in Ubuntu anyway have improved so that this is not so much a bug as an aesthetic choice.

Previously, at some font sizes, the letters of the font seemed to be staggered visually, due to the overshoot.  This no longer happens, to my eye.  See attached image.

It depends on the application, but for general text display, I think FreeSans works very well.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Mon 27 Apr 2009 07:55:39 AM UTC, comment #4: 

See also bug #26187:
FreeSans TTF 'e', and others drop down as font size increases
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?2618

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Sat 01 Mar 2008 05:23:54 PM UTC, comment #3: 

This is the purview of BlueValues.
See Adobe Type 1 spec

In FontForge, the blue horizontal lines.  See View -> Grid Fit
        FontInfo -> PS Private: BlueValues, BlueScale

See also http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ProductionGuidelines.mspx
on overshoots

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Sat 09 Feb 2008 01:54:56 PM UTC, comment #2: 

This item has been reassigned from the project Free UCS Outline Fonts support tracker to your tracker.

The original report is still available at support #105396

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[field #0]                  Item ID: 105396
[field #1]                 Group ID: 1405
[field #2]              Open/Closed: Open
[field #3]                 Severity: 3 - Normal
[field #4]                  Privacy: Public
[field #7]                         : Unknown support Field Display Type
[field #9]                 Category: None
[field #10]             Submitted by: None
[field #11]              Assigned to: Stevan_White
[field #12]             Submitted on: Monday 06/12/2006 at 11:26
[field #13]                  Summary: font letters height - FreeSansBold
[field #14]      Original Submission: when the size of FreeSans font is increased, letters have different hight and this looks terrible, is it possible to avoid this somehow?

see attached screenshot
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[field #17]                   Status: Confirmed
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Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Sat 09 Feb 2008 01:08:56 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,

The poster's example looks like FreeSansBold at about 16pt.
I tried his text with gedit.

And I agree, it doesn't look good.

The problem lies in the overshoot for most of the round letters.
The overshoot is quite excessive.
Overshoot is supposed to make the basline appear more uniform, not less uniform.

In particular, the capital C dips far below the baseline. When followed by a letter with no overshoot such as r, it looks misplaced.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Sat 09 Feb 2008 01:54:56 PM UTC, original submission:  

when the size of FreeSans font is increased, letters have different hight and this looks terrible, is it possible to avoid this somehow?

see attached screenshot

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2011-12-01 Stevan_White Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2011-09-02 Stevan_White Attached File- Added FreeSans-waterfall.png, #23925
    2011-09-02 Stevan_White StatusPostponed Fixed
    2011-08-27 Stevan_White StatusConfirmed Postponed
    2008-07-11 Stevan_White Attached File#16064 Removed
    2008-07-09 None Attached File- Added get_apache_80x15_2.png, #16064
    2008-02-15 Stevan_White Severity3 - Normal 4 - Important
    2008-02-13 Stevan_White Summaryfont letters height - FreeSansBold excessive overshoot - FreeSansBold
    2008-02-09 Stevan_White CategoryNone individual character(s)
        Item GroupNone bulk text appearance poor
        StatusNone Confirmed
        Assigned toNone Stevan_White
        ReleaseNone 2006-01-26
    2008-02-09 Stevan_White Reassign itemFree UCS Outline Fonts, sr #105396 Free UCS Outline Fonts, bug #22266

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