[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 14295] New: Hebrew Sans bold is unnaturally wide

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14295

           Summary: Hebrew Sans bold is unnaturally wide
           Product: DejaVu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Sans
        AssignedTo: dejavu-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: benshalom at gmail.com


Bold Sans fonts are extremely wide in Hebrew. a bold Hebrew Sans string is
approximately 20% longer (!) then an identical non-bold string. This not only
interrupts with proper reading, but also distorts any websites using bold fonts
(example: www.haaretz.co.il, note the blue links-bar below the title and the
titles of the individual stories). I have mentioned this earlier several times
in letters to the mailing list, but to no avail.
This problem does not exist in any other common font used for general display
of Hebrew (Nachliely, Guttman, the MS family...). It does not exist in Latin
letters used in DEjaVu sans, where the difference in length between a bold and
a regular string is only about 5%, which is much more bearable.


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