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skosch / Crimson

The Crimson Text typeface
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Old problem? Italic "d" & KDP publishing #75

Open jay3fer opened 4 years ago

jay3fer commented 4 years ago

I love using Crimson for book interiors but just discovered that the italic "d," which I've used several times, comes out looking stunted and weird (see image below):

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I've found a few old threads referring to this problem but in this 2013 one the link to an updated version of the font fixing the problem is broken: https://www.princexml.com/forum/topic/2462/lowercase-italic-latin-d-mysteriously-replaced-when-pdf-is

And in this far more recent thread, from Apr. 2019, a professional book designer advises against using Crimson for this reason: https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/question/0D5f400001VZ1BW/missing-letter-d-in-print-copy?language=it

Has this problem been resolved, as the 2013 thread claims, or is it still an issue, as the 2019 thread seems to suggest?

If it's been resolved, will the most recent TTF version (here at Github) work? The problem is that I can't see the problem on my computer, only once I upload the entire file to KDP, which is a somewhat lengthy process... so I'd like to be sure it'll work first.

Thanks so much!

Tzivia

skosch commented 4 years ago

Hi @jay3fer, I'm sorry for the delay, I missed this post completely. I haven't touched the font files in a few years and honestly couldn't answer your question without digging into this myself, which I don't have the time to at the moment. Were you able to find out whether the most recent version fixes it?

jimbojw commented 4 years ago

I came here to report this exact problem. Planning to try "Crimson Pro" instead.

dbenjaminmiller commented 4 years ago

Cochineal (https://ctan.org/pkg/cochineal?lang=en) also fixed this, and has the original-Crimson design, fwiw.