I'm going to revise my opinion about the overshoot being very excessive. I still think the overshoot is pronounced, but it is at a level of a stylistic choice.
There have been changes both to FreeFont and to the font rendering software in Ubuntu since I formed my original opinion. The technical changes to the font that improved the on-screen appearance have to do with PostScript "blues" values, that indicate to the font rendering software what part of the glyphs are overshoot (among other things). When I made those changes, there was an improvement, but it wasn't all I had hoped. Now it appears the font rendering software has been improved too, as in Ubuntu Natty I no longer see the jumpiness that had annoyed me before. Of course, overshoot is an intentional measure taken to visually align rounded letters with square one. Just how much overshoot is appropriate, is an aesthetic judgement. But to my eyes, a line of text in FreeSans appears quite straight--and I can tell you, with no overshoot at all, it would not. Have a look at the attached picture. If you have further remarks, it would be best to make them on the FreeFont page, as I said. Cheers! ** Attachment added: "FreeSans-waterfall.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-freefont/+bug/690477/+attachment/2342790/+files/FreeSans-waterfall.png ** Changed in: ttf-freefont (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/690477 Title: FreeSans: very excessive overshoot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-freefont/+bug/690477/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
