Hebrew fonts difficult to read

[ronshapiro]

Hebrew fonts difficult to read

Where the font came from, and when

Date: 2017-05-01 (preferred format)

Font Version

• Linux -- use (Gnome) Font Viewer: open a font and click on Info tab.

Issue

I find the Hebrew fonts to be very difficult to read compared to Roboto. The characters are more round, and extend far out from the center of the character's bounding-box. After reading a lot of Hebrew text, I find it less enjoyable to read compared to Roboto. The accents also seem to be more subdued compared to Roboto

In particular, the letters I find most difficult are:

ע - the extension at the bottom left is very short

ט - very round and not so descript from ס ן - again, the extension is very short. if this has an accent, it should be a bit longer. or it can be totally omitted. But the current accent is a tease, and hard to read ג מ - the upper left curve downwards feels very drastic ז - the top part doesn't seem to be similar to they way זis typically displayed

Character data

ע ט ן ג מ ז

[dougfelt]

@marekjez86 fyi. Since it's a design issue not sure what we do but collect feedback and see.

[marekjez86]

@ronshapiro : could you prepare for me some text samples. I'm not a reader/speaker of Hebrew hence I'm unable to do it.

[nizarsq]

Looks good to me now but I'm not Hebrew native reader/speaker. @marekjez86 any opinion?