Inconsistent spacing of the consonant-medial-ra ligature + vowel-sign-a on Noto Sans Balinese

mahalisyarifuddin commented 3 years ago

Font

NotoSansBalinese-Regular.ttf, also the other weights of the family

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/master/hinted/ttf/NotoSansBalinese Date: 2020-11-06, downloaded 2020-11-16

Font Version

2.001

OS name and version

Windows 7

Application name and version

Screenshot below created using Inkscape 1.0. The problems are also found on other programs.

Issue

Got myself the brand new font, gave it a try, and I found this issue. The spacing of the consonant-medial-ra ligature + vowel-sign-a is inconsistent, and this problem is more pronounced in the lighter weight of the font set. Such spacing is somewhat okay in the bolder weight.

Character data

Text used on the screenshot below: A sentence from "Geguritan Aji Sasana" palmleaf manuscript, leaf 24A (https://palmleaf.org/wiki/aji-sasana-gaguritan): ᬫᬶᬯᬄᬓ᭄ᬭᭀᬥᬚ᭄ᬭᭀᬦᬶᬂᬳᬢᬶ᭞

Examples of consonant-medial-ra ligature + vowel-sign-a: ᬳ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬦ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬘ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬭ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬓ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬤ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬢ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬲ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬯ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬮ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬧ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬚ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬬ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬜ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬫ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬕ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬩ᭄ᬭᬵ ᬗ᭄ᬭᬵ