[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 #8 from Qianqian Fang <fangqq at gmail.com>  2009-10-19 07:23:47 PST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> 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.
> 

I totally agree with you. I've sent emails to dejavu-fonts list (which you may
have already noticed), if there are other ways to attract more discussions on
this issue, please let me know, or feel free to forward.


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