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The Roboto family of fonts
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Letters x and χ should look different #223

Open brawer opened 7 years ago

brawer commented 7 years ago

Currently, the letters x and χ look identical in Roboto. This is a problem when rendering phonetic text, because [x] stands for the voiceless velar fricative whereas [χ] is uvular. For example, in IPA tests you’ll find both [plɪxt] and [ˈkɾɑχtəχ].

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jamesgk commented 7 years ago

This is a duplicate of https://github.com/google/roboto/issues/18, which is fixed in Android but not the webfont which is outdated.

brawer commented 7 years ago

Uhm, why is the webfont not getting updated? (Tell me if I should file a separate bug for that).

jamesgk commented 7 years ago

Not sure. You would probably want to file the bug at https://github.com/google/fonts and/or ask @davelab6 and co.

davelab6 commented 7 years ago

As one of the most popular families we take great care to update it and I'm not sure all hotfixes applied last time are applied to the latest release, so it's pending.

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