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Issues with cyrillic letters "К" and "ц"

Open sk1nzz opened this issue 5 years ago • 5 comments

Description

The cyrillic letters К(uppercase only) and ц(lowercase only) look bad. The К has too wide upper leg in bold weights and unproportional center bar in light weights. The lowercase к and Ж in both cases look great. Ц's descender is separated from the glyph that causes space between them and misalignment in small sizes. The upper-case glyph looks also great. I compared this glyphs with Roboto's glyphs in above picture: issue1

Environment

  • OS: Windows 10
  • Chrome, Photoshop
  • Inter 3.11

sk1nzz avatar Jan 18 '20 14:01 sk1nzz

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rsms avatar Feb 08 '20 23:02 rsms

So, I am not a graphic designer, but I am a native Cyrillic person, so I hope these tips will be helpful

First of all, the descenders on ц and щ should be identical because they are pretty much the same letter with a different amount of "poles".

Secondly, the descenders on both ц and щ are sticking out too far on the right, and you should move them left by 50% of their width.

Also, the descender on ц is moved down a bit and not slanted like щ, you should probably fix that.

Here's a Figma file with my fix ideas:

Figma Link Preview

https://www.figma.com/file/tcSsJHAWvac7S8hvnCpehx/Cyrillic-Inter-Fixes?node-id=0%3A1

I really love Inter, but these letters are dealbreakers for me

gbougakov avatar Feb 09 '20 20:02 gbougakov

Hi @rsms! Thanks for updating to 3.12. However, there is still some issues with cyrillic glyphs. I would fix them by yourself and make a pull request, but I don't have a Mac. So I've made a Figma file with my improvements. Untitled Figma file

sk1nzz avatar Mar 07 '20 08:03 sk1nzz

Thank you @sk1nzz! The file 404s for me. Did you perhaps delete it or change permissions? Screen Shot 2020-08-17 at 14 48 41

rsms avatar Aug 17 '20 21:08 rsms

Thank you @Derpitron for fixing Ka and ka in #423

rsms avatar Jan 18 '22 20:01 rsms