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Why does the ř (r with háček diacritic) in the "Europhilic" Czech text sample appear so different from the normal letter r? Is it intentional? It's quite jarrin

Why does the ř (r with háček diacritic) in the "Europhilic" Czech text sample appear so different from the normal letter r? Is it intentional? It's quite jarring to me. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/h6yNHCo.png https://i.imgur.com/h6yNHCo.png

Groxx 8y ago
strange. mine looks different (but ř is also a totally different shape) https://imgur.com/a/VpiXcGI https://imgur.com/a/VpiXcGI (Firefox on Windows)
- bauerd 8y ago
  Probably your browser falling back to a default font. Sure that Courier Prime includes that symbol?
  - Groxx 8y ago
    probably. and I sure hope so, since they use it as an example. but why in the world would you have that happen on a font demo site? use an image/svg. otherwise it's risking becoming a demonstration that it's unreliable/you don't know what you're doing. (not that browsers make this stuff easy... but still.)
    - mcv 8y ago
      The fact that it renders in two very different ways for different people suggests this is an error. A pretty bad one indeed for a font demo page. I hope they fix it. Has this been reported already? If not, I will. (Edit: I reported it on their support page.)
  - ygra 8y ago
    Perhaps the webfont on that page uses a subset and maybe the author of the page has the font also installed locally, so fallback would choose the locally installed font. I can see how it could happen without noticing and most people would not spot a single wrong character on the page when looking at it.
    - gpvos 8y ago
      That might explain it. Otherwise, this would be very weird for a "Europhilic" example.
      - ygra 8y ago
        Honestly, it would also be quite weird for a font these days to not have the full set of common-use Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic. So I'd assume a simple mistake here instead of forgotten important glyphs.
anonytrary 8y ago
Nice eye, I noticed that too. However, on my browser, the "ř" looks like Times New Roman. Might be a bug with the site's fallback.
vsl 8y ago
Glyph not present in the font, so browser substitutes some other. I assumed the page chooses the sample dynamically based on my location (see also: totally wrong machine translation). If this is hardcoded, then it doesn’t speak well about the author that they wouldn’t notice it (and if shows lack of awareness of non-English, Latin alphabet using, languages). Practically speaking, of course, a full Unicode font is an enormous undertaking, hence so many fonts lacking diacritics other than Latin-1.

Groxx 8y ago

strange. mine looks different (but ř is also a totally different shape) https://imgur.com/a/VpiXcGI https://imgur.com/a/VpiXcGI (Firefox on Windows)

bauerd 8y ago
Probably your browser falling back to a default font. Sure that Courier Prime includes that symbol?
- Groxx 8y ago
  probably. and I sure hope so, since they use it as an example. but why in the world would you have that happen on a font demo site? use an image/svg. otherwise it's risking becoming a demonstration that it's unreliable/you don't know what you're doing. (not that browsers make this stuff easy... but still.)
  - mcv 8y ago
    The fact that it renders in two very different ways for different people suggests this is an error. A pretty bad one indeed for a font demo page. I hope they fix it. Has this been reported already? If not, I will. (Edit: I reported it on their support page.)
- ygra 8y ago
  Perhaps the webfont on that page uses a subset and maybe the author of the page has the font also installed locally, so fallback would choose the locally installed font. I can see how it could happen without noticing and most people would not spot a single wrong character on the page when looking at it.
  - gpvos 8y ago
    That might explain it. Otherwise, this would be very weird for a "Europhilic" example.
    - ygra 8y ago
      Honestly, it would also be quite weird for a font these days to not have the full set of common-use Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic. So I'd assume a simple mistake here instead of forgotten important glyphs.

anonytrary 8y ago

Nice eye, I noticed that too. However, on my browser, the "ř" looks like Times New Roman. Might be a bug with the site's fallback.

vsl 8y ago

Glyph not present in the font, so browser substitutes some other. I assumed the page chooses the sample dynamically based on my location (see also: totally wrong machine translation). If this is hardcoded, then it doesn’t speak well about the author that they wouldn’t notice it (and if shows lack of awareness of non-English, Latin alphabet using, languages). Practically speaking, of course, a full Unicode font is an enormous undertaking, hence so many fonts lacking diacritics other than Latin-1.