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belluzj / fantasque-sans

A font family with a great monospaced variant for programmers.
http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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some glyphs unsuitable for programming (from Debian BTS) #68

Closed copyninja closed 8 years ago

copyninja commented 8 years ago

Hi @belluzj

I'm the maintainer of this font in Debian and I received the following bug report today.

The font Fantasque Sans Mono is described as being suitable for programmers. However, its glyphs fail to sufficiently distinguish important characters.

In particular:

  • The glyphs for accent characters <U+0060 `>, <U+00B4 ´> do not match correctly. They should be left-right mirror images, but instead the “grave” accent incorrectly looks like a single-open-quote glyph.

  • The single-quote characters <U+0027 '>, <U+2018 ‘>, <U+2019 ’> have glyphs that are virtually indistinguishable. The <U+0027 '> glyph should not be left or right biased.

    By comparison, the double-quote characters <U+0022 ">, <U+201C “>, <U+201D ”> have conventional and sufficiently distinct glyphs.

There may be other glyphs which in this font are unhelpful to programmers, but these have caught my attention.

The bug is at https://bugs.debian.org/820397

belluzj commented 8 years ago

Hi ! Thanks for making my font available to Debian users :)

I think most of the problems reported here have been fixed in 1.7.0 and further improved in 1.7.1 (c.f. https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/issues/57). I would advise that the OP upgrade their fonts to the latest version and check whether it solves their problem.

copyninja commented 8 years ago

Thank you @belluzj I've uploaded 1.7.1 to archive and I've closed the bug in Debian BTS. I will wait for a while to get response back from reporter and if there is still issue I'll reopen this bug.