Moving the closure of this to "Opinion". The issue reported was a valid one, just one in which there is a stylistic opinion between a Greek typographer of 20 years standing and a Greek reader of 20 years standing. What hopefully sets us above other typeface development projects of the past is out ability to make the most of both sets of experience.
Simos: We have the breathing space to re-open this is after deployment of the Ubuntu Font Family to a wider group of people, if it is further reported as being an issue―it may turn out to be acceptable or something that everyone gets used to it. Neither of these affect the validity of the concern raised (I appreciate your feedback and the time taken to provide it), but do have a bearing on the outcome. Equally, thank you for Dalton Maag and Shiraaz for taking the time to write about the rationale that lead to the current outlines. -- Style: Greek 'γ' (gamma) and 'ν' (nu) ambiguity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609289 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Greece, which is a direct subscriber. Status in Ubuntu Font Family: Opinion Bug description: Rendered in 24pt Regular Sample Glyphs: γ Description: The way the letter γ (U03B3) is styled is different from the typical you would expect in a Greek font. A Greek user would notice the peculiarity in this character and should take a bit to get used to it. What a Greek speaker expects is the 'leg' of γ to be vertical. If γ follows a design principle then I believe it's OK to have it like that. I believe one requirement here is that γ and ν look different. Currently γ looks very similar to the ν from DejaVu Sans (currently default Ubuntu font) but with a 'leg'. See http://simos.info/blog/archives/1144 for blog post and comment regarding γ. UA String: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100716 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.7 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux.sch.gr Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux.sch.gr More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
