VL Gothic odd characters

Masahiro Sekiguchi seki at jp.fujitsu.com
Fri Oct 14 00:06:13 UTC 2011


> > But in the vl-gothic that my Fedora 13 has, it looks different: the
> > diagonal stroke in the right half of the character goes through the
> > vertical bar, when it should only go to the right of the bar.
> > How does it look in your vl-gothic font?

> Aah, I see what you mean. In both characters the last stroke is placed
> unusually. I'm not sure if it's a bug or feature though, the IPA fonts
> have it also this way (both Gothic and Mincho style). Might be worth
> asking some actual Japanese whether it's wrong or acceptable
> stylisation.

It's a design thing.  Both shapes are perfectly fine.

As long as the rasterized image reflects the designer's intention, it
is not a bug.

--- 
Masahiro Sekiguchi <seki at jp.fujitsu.com>



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