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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: Changes to 6x13bold are ugly
- From: Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:23:03 +0000
- Message-id: <E14OMVj-0001mm-00@wraith.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Package: xfonts-base
Version: 4.0.2-1
Severity: wishlist
The new version of xfonts-base contains a version of 6x13bold in which
some of the characters look, to me, decidedly uglier than the previous
version, to the extent that they stand out in a screen full of text.
The worst-offending characters are the lower-case a, b, d, p and q,
though other characters have changed in a similar, but less offensive
way. The difference is in the way the loops of the lower-case letters
join onto the stems. In the old face, as in the medium version, the
join is almost a right-angle, and is the same thickness as, or thicker
than, the rest of the loop. The new face has the joins at 45 degrees,
and thinner than the rest of the loop. This thinness is incongrous
with the rest of the font.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wraith 2.2.14 #4 Thu Apr 6 16:31:17 BST 2000 i686
Versions of packages xfonts-base depends on:
ii xbase-clients 4.0.2-1 miscellaneous X clients
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