[Bug 1084227] New: Arrow symbols too small and not nicely aligned

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Bug ID: 1084227
           Summary: Arrow symbols too small and not nicely aligned
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 20
         Component: liberation-fonts
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail],
                    [e-mail],
                    [e-mail], [e-mail]

Created attachment 882471
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=882471&action=edit
testcase with some exemplary arrows

The arrow symbols contained in Liberation fonts seem to be too small and also a
little mis-aligned.

As an example consider the attached testcase which contains left/right/up/down
arrows exemplarily. The attached screenshot is a rendering of this file to
illustrate the issue:

- The arrows are much to small making them hardly discernible,
  especially at small font sizes.
- The horizontally aligned arrows are positioned too low (nearly at the
baseline).
- Also visible: Hinting for the vertically aligned arrows is bad.

The screenshot was created with Firefox 28.0 on Windows 7.
The installed version of the Liberation fonts is 2.00.1

[Bug 1084227] Arrow symbols too small and not nicely aligned

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--- Comment #1 from Eduard Braun  ---
Created attachment 882472
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=882472&action=edit
screenshot rendered with Firefox 28.0 on Windows 7

[Bug 1084227] Arrow symbols too small and not nicely aligned

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--- Comment #2 from Pravin Satpute  ---
Yeah, position of horizontal arrows can be improved.

Please mention version of liberation fonts you are using. It will be very
helpful if you can mark location of other two issues hinting and arrow size in
image for better understanding.

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--- Comment #3 from Eduard Braun  ---
The installed version of the Liberation fonts is 2.00.1 (as written in the bug
description; anything else you need or have you just over-read it?)

I'll attach two samples to illustrate the other two issues:
- The bad hinting of vertical arrows is quickly visible when zooming into a
  screenshot: The vertical line is positioned between pixels instead of
directly
  onto a vertical line of pixels. Because of active subpixel anti-aliasing this
  results in a "thick colored line" instead of a thin black line.
- The small arrow size is apparent from a screenshot of my Wikipedia watchlist
  (this is where I also first observed the issue): When compared to e.g. Arial,
  the arrow of Liberation Sans is *tiny*. When highlighting the arrow in the
  browser one can also see that the highlighted are is also much larger than
the
  actually visible arrow. Also underlining (the arrow is a link in the sample)
is
  much wider than the arrow itself.

[Bug 1084227] Arrow symbols too small and not nicely aligned

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--- Comment #4 from Eduard Braun  ---
Created attachment 886222
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=886222&action=edit
vertical arrows are hinted "between pixels"

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--- Comment #5 from Eduard Braun  ---
Created attachment 886223
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=886223&action=edit
Arrows are *tiny* compared to e.g. Arial

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