[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 12103] Legibility of DejaVuSans π U+03C0 ("Greek small letter pi")

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12103


Nigel.Stewart at ansys.com changed:

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------- Comment #8 from Nigel.Stewart at ansys.com  2007-08-27 09:34 PST -------
I sought the opinion of my a friend of mine - an Australian
born to Greek parents and grew up in a Greek speaking household.
In Melbourne Australia there is a significant Greek community
including a Greek language newspaper.

He had the following comments:

(Screenshot of freetype auto-hinted π at various sizes)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=11214

The DejaVu π looks better than Liberation Sans or Serif at 12pt (72 DPI).
However, the FreeSans π looks more natural than the corresponding DejaVu π.

Overall, I think Dejavu π is fine at sizes 8, 10, 14 and 20.
However, 12 and 16 don't sit well with me.

(Screenshots of freetype π with auto-hinting and bytecode interpretation)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=11217
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=11227

Dejavu π looks too squarish to me in both of these examples. 


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