Sun 16 Dec 2012 01:08:06 PM UTC, comment #3:
Hi Benjamin,
Regarding your screenshots: I see it; it does indeed appear that the letter s (upper and lower case) is taken from the oblique style (or otherwise slanted). I have no idea why this would happen. I suspect a renderer has a glitch somewhere--there really isn't anything in the font that would do this. I should also say... it seems vaguely familiar, like maybe something I saw years ago. But that's all I have.
You should be aware that the actual rendering (of the font's glyph outlines as screen pixels) is done by some software layer, sometimes in the application, sometimes in a system library. L/O has its own rendering layer; I don't think emacs does. Part of the question then, is which rendering software is responsible.
You might try a bit of text directly rendered from a low-level renderer such as Pango or Harfbuzz. ("pango-view" -- you might have to install a package to get that.)
It might be interesting to try the official release, just to see if something recent has happened to the font, or if there is a build problem (I doubt it, but...). I strongly recommend that you use these rather than development versions, unless you have a specific reason. The last official release is dated 20120503 at
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/
The OpenType (otf) builds are recommended for Linux; I find they look better under the modern renderers. The TrueType builds are provided for Windows.
As to usage: FreeMono works better at larger sizes, and on higher-resolution screens. Personally I use it on large monitors where I have enough real estate, but not on my netbook.
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