24-pt Roman bold too bold

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OpenType Unicode fonts for Scientific, Technical, and Mathematical texts

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24-pt Roman bold too bold #12

Closed davidmjones closed 6 years ago

davidmjones commented 13 years ago

As shown in the attached image, Roman bold shows as much too heavy in OpenOffice.org Writer (OOo 3.3 under Windows 7). The italic bold weight is OK. When I export the document to PDF all of the weights look fine. Is this something to report to you or to OOo? - Robert

Reported by: wrjf

Original Ticket: stixfonts/tracking/12

davidmjones commented 13 years ago

Demonstration of excessive weight of Roman bold

Original comment by: wrjf

davidmjones commented 13 years ago

I was just looking at the fonts as displayed by Windows Preview of the .otf files and realized that the excessive weight of the Roman bold is specific to the 24-pt size, which seems too heavy compared with the sizes below and above. The 24-pt stroke width is essentially the same as that at 36-pt, rather than being intermediate between 18 and 36.

My previous observation resulted from using 12-pt in OOo Writer but viewing it at 200%, invoking the 24-pt font. I've changed the summary of this issue from 'Roman bold too bold in OpenOffice.org' to '24-pt Roman bold too bold'.

Original comment by: wrjf

davidmjones commented 13 years ago

summary: Roman bold too bold in OpenOffice.org --> 24-pt Roman bold too bold

Original comment by: wrjf

davidmjones commented 13 years ago

Thanks for the original input and follow-up, We will investigate further.

Original comment by: stipub

davidmjones commented 12 years ago

status: open --> closed-wont-fix

Original comment by: stipub

davidmjones commented 12 years ago

After reviewiing this issue it seems to be a problem of the rendering of OOo 3.3, as the exported pdf shows correctly.

Original comment by: stipub