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dpk / et-book

A OpenType version of the typeface used in Edward Tufte’s books.
MIT License
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Top of capital B too thin #7

Closed reaganch closed 3 years ago

reaganch commented 7 years ago

I just substituted the ETBembo font available from https://github.com/edwardtufte/et-book with the ETBookOT font, but found an odd difference in the upper case B.

The capital B in ETBookOT looks too thin on the top, and almost disappears when viewed at a small size. Not sure if this is a feature or a bug.

reaganch commented 7 years ago

Just noticed that the character spacing is also a bit wider than the original ETBembo font. Is this by design?

dpk commented 7 years ago

Could be a rendering issue (OTF and TTF render differently on some platforms). The design should be exactly the same. If not FontForge is to blame and I'll try to retroactively apply a fix.

reaganch commented 7 years ago

I've attached screenshots of text rendered on my website using the original et-book font and ETBookOT. Note the subtle difference in character spacing and the top of the capital B. The ETBookOT fonts were compiled using fontforge version 20161013. Would love to replace et-book with ETBookOT on my website. Thanks!

et-book et-book

ETBookOT ETBookOT

reaganch commented 7 years ago

An update to this. I see the same differences when using the ETBookOT fonts downloaded from the Releases section of this repo. Oddly though, these differences are seen only in the Roman font, not in the Bold font.

dpk commented 3 years ago

Closing as this applies to a version of the font that will soon be obsolete. If you’d like to check back if this problem still exists when version 2.0 of the font is released, I’ll reopen the issue then if so.