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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- Hinting/Kerning: "plan" spacing mismatched
+ Ubuntu font's hooked lower-case "l" is autohinted with uneven left/right space

** Description changed:

- Rendered in 24pt Regular
+ 1. Load the attached HTML file in an app that uses the Ubuntu font's manual hinting.
+ <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191181257/669571-plan.html>
  
+ What you see: In the sequences "pla", "ple", "plo", there is equal space left and right of the stem of the "l".
+ <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191180442/669571-hinted-manually.png>
  
- Sample Glyphs:
+ 2. Load the same file in an app that uses the Freetype autohinter.
  
- plan
+ What you see: The spacing on either side of the stem is sometimes different.
+ <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191181208/669571-hinted-automatically.png>
  
- 
- Description:
- 
- The "l" appears much closer to the "a" than to the "p". The problem is
- especially apparent at size 24, but it also appeared at other sizes when
- going through them.
- 
- The problem appears to be with the "l" rather than the "p", and some
- other trigrams produce spacings that seem a bit off as well. (See "ali"
- or "nlz" for example.)
- 
- 
- UA String:
- 
- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.11 (KHTML, like
- Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/9.0.562.0 Chrome/9.0.562.0 Safari/534.11
+ What you should see: There is equal space left and right of the stem of
+ the "l".

** Tags added: autohinter

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669571

Title:
  Ubuntu font's hooked lower-case "l" is autohinted with uneven
  left/right space

Status in “freetype” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  1. Load the attached HTML file in an app that uses the Ubuntu font's manual hinting.
  <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191181257/669571-plan.html>

  What you see: In the sequences "pla", "ple", "plo", there is equal space left and right of the stem of the "l".
  <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191180442/669571-hinted-manually.png>

  2. Load the same file in an app that uses the Freetype autohinter.

  What you see: The spacing on either side of the stem is sometimes different.
  <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191181208/669571-hinted-automatically.png>

  What you should see: There is equal space left and right of the stem
  of the "l".

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