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Different angle of contrast with latin and greek letters #172

Closed zepinglee closed 3 years ago

zepinglee commented 3 years ago

The glyphs of latin letter “o” and greek letter “ο” (omicron) in STIX Two Math version 2.0.1 are as below.

Screen Shot 2020-12-17 at 12 33 48

The direction of the thin parts (red lines) of the glyphs are different. This also applies to other lowercase greek letters. Is it a feature of design or a bug?

In the original Times font, these directions are consistent.

Screen Shot 2020-12-17 at 12 44 06

The above illustrations are produced with TeX Live 2020.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont{Times}
\setmathfont{STIX2Math.otf}
\setmathfont{XITSMath-Regular.otf}[version=xits]
\begin{document}
Times: o \symbol{"03BF} \textit{o \symbol{"03BF}} \par
STIX Two Math: $o$ $\omicron$ \par
\mathversion{xits}
XITS Math: $o$ $\omicron$ \par
\end{document}
dbenjaminmiller commented 3 years ago

This is intentional. You may want to read this: https://medium.com/@gerryleonidas/designing-greek-typefaces-eac0de7767cc

zepinglee commented 3 years ago

This is intentional. You may want to read this: https://medium.com/@gerryleonidas/designing-greek-typefaces-eac0de7767cc

Thanks!