Bug 7596

Summary:	Cyrillic hard sign (U+044B) looks blurred in small size
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	andu
Component:	Mono Sans	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	A screenshot for this bug DejaVu Cyrillic Alphabet Screenshot

Description andu 2006-07-22 07:47:57 UTC

In DejaVu Sans Mono the Cyrillic hard sign U+044A, letter U+044B and their 
capital counterpars look blurred in small sizes on my desktop (other letters 
look clear). I'm using freetype 2.2.1, KDE is configured to use antialiasing + 
full hinting.

Comment 1 andu 2006-07-22 07:49:07 UTC

Created attachment 6303 [details]
A screenshot for this bug

Comment 2 Denis Jacquerye 2006-07-22 13:49:11 UTC

Fixed in DejaVu Sans Mono in SVN.
I guess it needs to be hinted in other fonts too :-)

Are there more Cyrillic characters you're seeing blurred on a regular basis?

Comment 3 andu 2006-07-23 01:19:35 UTC

Created attachment 6306 [details]
DejaVu Cyrillic Alphabet Screenshot

I looked at other DejaVu fonts (version 2.8, at 12pt). Apparently you notice
these:

DejaVu Sans Mono. Hard sign U+044A and letter U+044B look blurred, as was
mentioned. Letter Eh U+044D looks a little bit dirty. This is true for both
small and capital letters. Other letters are nice.

DejaVu Sans. Only small letter Eh U+044D looks blurred (or you may say, bolder
then it should be). Others are ok.

DejaVu Sans Serif. Hard sing U+044A, letter U+044B and Eh U+044D look blurred,
and this is only for small letters, capital letters look ok.

Comment 4 andu 2006-07-23 02:40:09 UTC

I managed to install the SVN version, finally :)    
    
Hard sign and letter U+044B look good now in all the mentioned fonts. So this 
bug I'm closing. Letter Eh U+044D doesn't look really good in DejaVu Sans Mono 
and DejaVu Sans, but for that I'll open a new bug.

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