https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863817
--- Comment #5 from Lior Halphon <[email protected]> --- Matching metrics with Arial Hebrew might not be entirely a good idea – while Latin Arial has good proportions due to it being metric compatible with Helvetica, Arial Hebrew suffers from weird proportions that hurt its readability. For example, in Arial, the letter Bet (05D1) is much wider the letter Tet (05D8), while the opposite should be true. In analog to Latin, it would be a font where lowercase T is wider than lowercase N. Additionally, it seems that the current Hebrew glyphset in Liberation Sans isn't metric compatible with Arial in the first place. Metric compatibility with Narkis Tam (One of the fonts Arial Hebrew is based on, but with better proportions, and is equivalent to Helvetica) will result in better readability. Despite this, I'm able to modify the letters to match Arial's metrics, but it will significantly damage the readability. (Either way – the result will still be better than the current glyphs) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ fonts-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts-bugs http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
