Closed Bug 828712 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Gaia font has poor kerning on note at the bottom of "Device Storage" page ("mu sic", "sto red', "sto rage")

Categories

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia, defect)

ARM
Gonk (Firefox OS)
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 816614

People

(Reporter: dholbert, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: b2g-testdriver, unagi)

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(4 files)

STR:
 1. Settings | Device storage
 2. Look at the paragraph at the bottom -- in particular, the words "music", "stored", and "storage"

ACTUAL RESULTS: The words are improperly kerned -- they look like this (exaggerated for demonstration):
   mu sic
   sto red
   sto rage


If I use the feedback app and type those words in there, the kerning is much nicer.  It appears to use the same font & font-size as the settings app -- just a different color.

I'm attaching screenshots of the word "stored" from the settings app & from the feedback app.  The screenshots are identical except that
 (a) the settings app's text is darker
 (b) the settings app's text has "to" shifted to the left by 1px (mis-kerned)
Component: Gaia → Gaia::Settings
Summary: Weird kerning in settings app "Device Storage" note at the bottom → Settings | Device Storage has improper kerning on note at the bottom ("mu sic", "sto red', "sto rage")
Attachment #700085 - Attachment description: screenshot of the word "stored" from Settings | Device Storage → screenshot of the word "stored" from Settings | Device Storage (bad kerning)
Actually, the Feedback app shows the same issues if I type the exact same paragraph into it -- so this must be dependent on the exact position in a line, and whether an individual character ends up getting bumped left or right by 1px.  Each line in this snapshot of the Feedback app is identical (aside from color) to the corresponding line in the settings app.  (The inter-line spacing is slightly different, too -- I'm disregarding that.)

I wonder if we can fix the font that we're using to improve this...?  Not high-priority, but it might be nice.
Component: Gaia::Settings → Gaia
OS: Linux → Gonk (Firefox OS)
Hardware: x86_64 → ARM
Summary: Settings | Device Storage has improper kerning on note at the bottom ("mu sic", "sto red', "sto rage") → Gaia font has poor kerning on note at the bottom of "Device Storage" page ("mu sic", "sto red', "sto rage")
Attachment #700087 - Attachment description: screenshot of the word "stored" typed into Feedback app (good kerning) → screenshot of the word "stored" @ beginning of a line in Feedback app (good kerning)
Attachment #700099 - Attachment description: screenshot of feedback app w/ same paragraph (shows same issues) → screenshot of feedback app w/ same paragraph (has the same kerning issues)
CC'ing two font guys as a sanity-check, since I know very little about fonts.
Looks like bug 816614.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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