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Re: Progress update on adjustments database branch.


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: Progress update on adjustments database branch.
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 05:34:10 +0000 (UTC)

Hello Brad,


> On this issue, I’ve noticed a particularly egregious example in the
> past few days: around 20 ppem, with autohinting enabled, ⟨ñ⟩ in Noto
> Sans Regular consistently renders with a horizontal bar, so as to be
> indistinguishable from ⟨n̄⟩.  As Werner mentioned some time ago, this
> particular character may not be a huge problem in practise, but it
> would be nice to get this fixed nonetheles.  I note especially that
> --- at least on my machine --- popular sites like Wikipedia and
> Reddit render in precisely this font at that size.

I think – hope – this is on Craig's plate :-) And yes, the tilde
character needs special treatment, i.e., a vertical exaggeration of
the shape for small sizes to retain the wiggle.


    Werner

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