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Notos-sans-gujarati issue - Oneindia #177

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Test Link: 
http://gujarati.oneindia.in/temp/google-font/notos-sans-gujarati/

We found below issue:
1 - font shape is not proper in some letters. (I attached a pic with 
problems in font and Numbers)
2 - When we zoom out the fonts, feel uneasy to read.
3 - Spacing between letters are not as good as current font.

Please refer the attachment.

-- 
regards,
Mukesh Kumar
Sr. Web Developer
Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mukes...@oneindia.co.in on 13 Oct 2014 at 9:24

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by roozbeh@google.com on 25 Oct 2014 at 1:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by roozbeh@google.com on 16 Jan 2015 at 6:12

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thanks a lot for the report.

It seems that JA (જ) is wider in Noto compared to Windows fonts, and NA (ન) 
doesn't have the loop that Windows fonts have. On YA (ય), it seems that some 
fonts (like Microsoft's Shruti) have a rounded shape on its left, while Noto 
has a sharp shape.

Assigning to Jelle to tell us if these are as designed.

(Xiangye, would also ask our reviewers about the three issues?)

Original comment by roozbeh@google.com on 3 Apr 2015 at 2:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Feedback from our reviewers:

We've taken a look at the current release versions (v1.02, hinted). 

JA:
A bit ungainly: overly wide and the upper loop very large, causing the letter 
to appear unbalanced. The large loop may be intentional, though, in order to 
maximise legibility at small sizes. The loop is usually quite large and but 
here would benefit from being reduced slightly.

NA:
The closed knot is certainly legitimate in Gujurati, and is the typical form in 
higher contrast text types. [The open ring form is common in lower contrast 
'sans' types, but not necessarily definitive of the style.]

However, the knot itself is usually bigger than in Devanagari. I agree that it 
is a bit modest here. Also, in Gujarati it is usually curved slightly not as 
straight as in Devanagari but I guess for UI it needs to be straight/flat.  I 
do agree that Na does look narrow when set before the Va and Sa in the words 
shown in the image. I would make it wider and the knot slightly bigger.

YA:
Ya a bit wide, but overall Noto Sans Gujarati is a broad face (cf. BHA ભ, 
which is very wide; again, this may be intentional vis à vis legibility at 
small sizes).The real problem is, at small sizes in Noto Sans, Ya is not as 
easily distinguishable from Pa as one would expect. 

Spacing
The OneIndia feedback also compares spacing unfavourably with 'current font'. 
Without seeing the comparison, it is difficult to qualify this statement. Noto 
Sans Gujurati spacing is on the tight side, relative to the width of many 
counters, but not debilitatingly so.

JYa
The font renders the conjunct JYa જ્ય using the half J-. This is 
acceptable, but since the font contains numerous ligatures for -Ya it would be 
nice to have one for this sequence also, so that a more natural connection 
could be formed between these letters.

OTOH, having said all that, I do not think any of these things are particularly 
problematic. I was able to read these ‘problematic’ glyphs easily from the 
contexts.

Original comment by xiangye@chromium.org on 3 Apr 2015 at 8:47

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