[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 7432] Cyrillic small "b" looks inappropriate for a modern non-cursive font

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------- Additional Comments From tetromino at gmail.com  2006-07-07 10:57 -------
I'm the guy behind bug 7452.
The following things look wrong to me in Russian DejaVu 2.7:

In DejaVu Sans, the "b" is a medieval relic (as Pavel Roskin already said). The
descenders on the bottom of "d", "ts", and "sch" look too long -- they are as
long as the tail of "u", but in virtually all Russian typefaces, they are only
small downward notches. More annoyingly, the left stem of "d" and "l" curves to
the left too much -- in Russian typefaces where the "d" and "l" have a flat top,
the  left stem is supposed to be pretty much vertical and curve left only a
little at the very bottom, sort of like the Latin letter "J", but in DejaVu Sans
the stems look more like the bottom-right quarter of a circle.

In DejaVu Sans and Sans Mono, the "r" and "R" look a bit weird, almost as if
they were mirror-images of Latin "R". Either the left tail of the "R" should be
more vertical, or it should join the loop more to the right. Plus the DejaVu
tail of the "R" is, imho, too convex. It looks especially annoying in upper-case
"R" in small font sizes -- there, the left tail and the bottom of the loop look
like they form the upper-left quarter of a circle, while the effect is much more
polygonal in virtuall all Russian sans-serif typefaces. Look at the way Arial
and Bitstream Vera Sans do the "R"...

Finally -- I am not sure whether this is a bug in my freetype or in DejaVu --
some Russian letters seem to be rendered differently from the others of the same
face at the same size. This problem affects lower-case "hard sign" (U+044A), "y"
(U+044B), and "e" (U+044D) in most of the DejaVu faces. Depending on the
selected font size, these letters are either rendered too large compared to
their neightbors, or too drawn too fuzzily, or are half-bolded for some reason.

Of course, all of this is my personal preference, but I am confident that most
people who are used to standard Russian fonts and Russian printed material will
agree with me.          
     
     
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