[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 24515] Kerning overdone for pairs T?, V?, R?, Y? and W?

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24515





--- Comment #7 from Ben Laenen <bl.bugs at gmail.com>  2009-10-19 02:48:16 PST ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> DejaVu sans is the most widely used screen font in FOSS desktops. I think it is
> more important to keep its fitness for its primary use (screen display) than to
> concern the consistency in documents. This is indeed a long standing issue and
> you can find a number of reports in the opened bugs:

We know that we're a screen font, and we've never pretended to be a good
document font. However, since we are the default on most Linux distros, you get
DejaVu by default if you make a document and don't bother to change the font.
Therefore I consider the amount of documents made with DejaVu big enough to not
ignore.


But I'm just saying here that changing base glyphs is not something we do
lightly. I think the number of times we've edited a base glyph in DejaVu until
now in a way that made a visual effect can be counted on one hand. And probably
all of those changes was to fix a real error. And they all were done after
discussion.

So that means that this will also have a lot of discussion first before
thinking about putting it in DejaVu.


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