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Design suggestion for character U+8607 蘇 in TW and HK variant

Open gbnewb opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Prerequisites

  • [x] If you are reporting an issue that affects glyphs for characters for a particular region or regions, did you verify that the characters are within the supported scope of the region or regions? This generally means GB 18030 or Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzìbiǎo (通用规范汉字表) for China, Big Five or CNS 11643 Planes 1 & 2 for Taiwan, HKSCS-2016 for Hong Kong, the JIS standards for Japan, and KS X 1001 and KS X 1002 for Korea.
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Description

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It would look better if the upper 艹 and the lower 穌 are discrete.

Also I noticed that the bottom of the left part of 艹 is not smooth, maybe that's an issue as well?

I put the other variant alongside just to show how it would look better. Didn't mean it was mapped wrong. I know the 艹 part should be split in TW and HK standard. It should be adjusted to look better.

gbnewb avatar Oct 29 '21 16:10 gbnewb

Thank you. We'll look into the design. The bottom of the left part of 艹 seems to have an interpolation issue, but both masters appear to be fine so I'm not sure yet where that glitch is coming from.

punchcutter avatar Nov 02 '21 07:11 punchcutter

The interpolation is fine, it looks kind of "distorted" in certain weights just because the triangular decoration of the 丿 in 魚 is overlapping with the left vertical stroke of 艹.

tamcy avatar Nov 02 '21 11:11 tamcy

Ah, that's right. Similar to https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/118.

punchcutter avatar Nov 02 '21 11:11 punchcutter