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noto sans arrow #166
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Transferring google/fonts#643 here:
why is the arrow for the noto sans font so low? it is almost as if it is subscripted. is there a way to fix this?
@evanslove what is the exact arrow unicode character you are referring to? Could you post a screenshot comparing with other fonts that have an arrow height you like? :)
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marekjez86 commentedon Feb 10, 2017
@evanslove : are you referring to Unicode Character 'MODIFIER LETTER LOW LEFT ARROW' (U+02FF) ? or Unicode Character 'MODIFIER LETTER LOW DOWN ARROWHEAD' (U+02EF) or 'MODIFIER LETTER LOW UP ARROWHEAD' (U+02F0)? or 'MODIFIER LETTER LOW LEFT ARROWHEAD' (U+02F1) or 'MODIFIER LETTER LOW RIGHT ARROWHEAD' (U+02F2)?
All 5 listed above are by definition and by design low (in the image they are in order listed above).
If you had a different character in mind please let us know.
https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-zsym has much more complete selection of arrows.
moyogo commentedon Feb 10, 2017
@marekjez86 See https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/439#issuecomment-257550189
dougfelt commentedon Feb 10, 2017
It would be good to know the arrow, in any case.
In the phase 3 Noto fonts the arrows (excepting these defined to be low arrows) should be more consistent and vertically positioned closer to the middle of the cap height.
marekjez86 commentedon Feb 10, 2017
@moyogo : thanks for the reminder that we fixed low arrow errors in https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/439#issuecomment-257550189 but we haven't pushed to the public yet
@evanslove : please use (if you can) fonts from https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/tree/master/alpha/from-pipeline/unhinted/ttf/sans (they have issues listed in bug 439 fixed)
hrhatada commentedon Feb 13, 2017
Hi Marek. I compared the NotoSans arrows’ position to Apple’s SF chars. NotoSans arrow chars positions are very low as pointed out.
I liked to check the corrected arrow positions but the ver 1.902 fonts from https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/tree/master/alpha/from-pipeline/unhinted/ttf/sans is missing arrow chars. Would you like me to file the missing char issue separately?
nizarsq commentedon Jul 19, 2020
@marekjez86 Is it expected not to have U+2192(→) U+2190 (←) U+2191 (↑) U+2193 (↓) in NotoSans and NotoSerif?
