polarsys / b612

Eclipse B612
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/polarsys.b612
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B612 Mono has bizarre U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK glyph #33

Open inklesspen opened 1 month ago

inklesspen commented 1 month ago

I rendered the string “She said, ‘Don't make others suffer for your personal hatred.’” in all eight version of the typeface, and there is an oddity with the right single quotation mark (U+2019) in every weight and shape of the monospace font.

quotes-example

Note that in the non-monospaced b612, the left double quotation mark looks like a doubled version of the left single quotation mark, and the right double quotation mark looks like a doubled version of the right single quotation mark. This is because they are all derived from the base glyph quotesinglbase, with transformations applied.

However, in B612 Mono, the quotes are not derived from this quotesinglbase glyph (though it is defined in the UFO); they are all independently defined. And the right single quotation mark glyph looks to have more in common with the acute accent than anything else. It just plain looks wrong.