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huertatipografica / Alegreya

Serif family, part of the Alegreya "super family" www.huertatipografica.com
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Greek lowercase theta symbol incorrect in italic fonts of Allegraya font family #16

Open Laisvunas opened 6 years ago

Laisvunas commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I found a bug: in all italic fonts of the Allegreya font family instead of Greek lowercase theta symbol its stylistic variant symbol is being displayed. Attached is a picture from Google fonts: chars in textinpua and in all regular fonts are correct, chars in italic fonts are incorrect. allegreya-greek-theta-lowercase-issue

RuixiZhang42 commented 4 years ago

Hmm… I don’t know if I’d call this a “bug”.

The letterforms of certain letters in the italic style are often different from those in the roman style. The most common examples are the lowercase letters a and g: In the roman style, they are often double-story; while in the italic style they are often single-story.

As for the Greek lowercase theta, it is not uncommon that the italic style is trying to emulate a more “handwritten” feel, so the italic theta looks like a “script” letter. This treatment can be seen in the entire Microsoft ClearType Collection.