[Bug 1179691] New: Bold lower-case letter "s" looks in some cases too thin with Medium+ hinting

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179691

Bug ID: 1179691
           Summary: Bold lower-case letter "s" looks in some cases too
                    thin with Medium+ hinting
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: liberation-fonts
          Severity: low
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail],
                    [e-mail],
                    [e-mail], [e-mail]

Created attachment 977206
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=977206&action=edit
Lower-case "s" too thin on Full hinting

Description of problem:

Bold lower-case letter "s" in serif looks in some cases too thin with Medium
and Full hinting, but look OK with hinting set to Slight or None. See attached
screenshots from LO Writer from F21.

See the "s" in a word "Midas" and "asked". It's 12 pt Liberation Serif, bold,
paper is enlarged to 157 % of width of A4 paper. When the zoom ratio gets
higher, the problem disappears, when zoomed out it's worse (but less visible).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

liberation-serif-fonts-1.07.4-4.fc21.noarch
freetype-2.5.3-13.fc21.x86_64
libreoffice-core-4.3.5.2-4.fc21.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always.

[Bug 1179691] Bold lower-case letter "s" looks in some cases too thin with Medium+ hinting

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179691

--- Comment #1 from Michal Nowak  ---
Created attachment 977207
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=977207&action=edit
Good rendering with Slight hinting

[Bug 1179691] Bold lower-case letter "s" looks in some cases too thin with Medium+ hinting

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179691

Michal Nowak  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Attachment #977207|Good rendering with Slight  |Better rendering with
        description|hinting                     |Slight hinting

[Bug 1179691] Bold lower-case letter "s" looks in some cases too thin with Medium+ hinting

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179691

Fedora End Of Life  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |EOL
        Last Closed|                            |2016-07-19 16:07:30

--- Comment #3 from Fedora End Of Life  ---
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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