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bug #50690: Misshapen descenders on small capital Cyrillic ze and es

Submitter:  David Corbett <dscorbett>
Submitted:  Fri 31 Mar 2017 02:41:12 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  individual character(s) Severity:  2 - Minor
Item Group:  glyph(s) ugly Status:  Fix posted
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
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Tue 04 Apr 2017 01:15:33 PM UTC, comment #8: 

With a large font size you can still see a zigzag on the small capital ze with descender, but it is fine at normal sizes.

David Corbett <dscorbett>
Tue 04 Apr 2017 11:46:06 AM UTC, comment #7: 

Have another look, please.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Mon 03 Apr 2017 06:03:46 PM UTC, comment #6: 

It’s ever so slightly better in revision 3348 but still misaligned. The capital and small capital forms of these characters are still inconsistent.

The new attached image shows the capital and small capital ze and es with descenders with more highlighting. I hope this will clarify what I am talking about.

The capital letters are good. The small capital letters are bad.

The capital letters have green circles circling how the connection between the letter and the descender should look. The small capital letters have red circles circling how the connection currently wrongly looks.

The capital letters have smooth green lines next to them to emphasize that the connection should be smooth. The small capital letters have zigzag red lines next to them to emphasize that the connection should not be jagged, though it currently is.


David Corbett <dscorbett>
Mon 03 Apr 2017 05:17:31 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Have another look.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Mon 03 Apr 2017 02:10:21 PM UTC, comment #4: 

The descenders still don’t align well. The small capital letters’ descenders do not attach to their bodies the same as in the capital letters. The attached image shows the capital and small capital ze and es with descenders, with the discrepancies highlighted.


David Corbett <dscorbett>
Sat 01 Apr 2017 11:35:42 AM UTC, comment #3: 

I just mis-read your report.
Fix in SVN.

I beat you to the next one: the hook on the Es in Mono is reversed!

(file #40226)

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Fri 31 Mar 2017 05:09:35 PM UTC, comment #2: 

The attached image shows two U+0499 glyphs. The left is normal and the right is small caps.

The normal glyph’s descender connects smoothly to the letter’s base, whereas the left side of the connection between the small caps letter and its descender has a zigzag.

I said it looks too large because it is a capital-sized descender on a lowercase-sized letter. I don’t have any standard to back up this opinion.

All this goes for U+04AB too.


David Corbett <dscorbett>
Fri 31 Mar 2017 04:18:59 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi David,

In what sense are they misshapen, with regard to what standard are thy too large? 

As to alignment, to my eye, they are both aligned pretty well to the round openings in the letter.  What are you referring to?

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Fri 31 Mar 2017 02:41:12 PM UTC, original submission:  

In FreeSerif (all styles), the descenders of small capital U+0499 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZE WITH DESCENDER and U+04AB CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES WITH DESCENDER are too large and don’t perfectly align with the curved bottoms of the letters.

David Corbett <dscorbett>

 

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file #40226:  Cyr-desc.html added by Stevan_White (985B - text/html)
file #40223:  0499.png added by dscorbett (27KiB - image/png)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2017-04-03 dscorbett Attached File- Added descender-differences-1.png, #40244
    2017-04-03 dscorbett Attached File- Added descender-differences.png, #40243
    2017-04-01 Stevan_White Attached File- Added Cyr-desc.html, #40226
        StatusNeed info Fix posted
    2017-03-31 dscorbett Attached File- Added 0499.png, #40223
    2017-03-31 Stevan_White Severity3 - Normal 2 - Minor
        StatusNone Need info
        Assigned toNone Stevan_White

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