v-u-without-bar and italic cyri/cyrtse(/cyrdzhe)

[pv4]

When using v-u-without-bar the generated u glyph is used for italic variant of cyri, cyrtse and cyrdzhe. As a result the mentioned cyrillic glyphs look incorrect for me as for native Russian speaking man.

On the picture attached the red regions are what looks wrong. The green region is what is done right (to simplify comparison for you).

The attached patch fixes the issue for me. cyri.italic and cyrtse.italic must refer to u.withBar instead of just u.

The cyrdzhe.italic glyph is also fixed in the patch. I've never seen this one in my life but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Cyrillic it is symmetric and therefore should refer to u.withoutBar.

I only noticed these three glyphs but there may be other ones as well that become incorrect when using different variants for latin glyphs they refer to.

Iosevka-3.2.2-cyrillic_italic.patch.gz

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• Your font version: 3.2.2

[be5invis]

[pv4]

Just for the record. You're right. The cyrdzhe.italic can be unsymmetric. The attached image is from wikipedia.

[eevan78]

I'm а native Serbian.
In italic variants off all typefaces, the lowercase letter dzhe (џ) has the vertical line in the middle of the character width.
The one in the proposed glyph here should be moved a bit to the right, so that it sits in the center, like it is on the uppercase Џ.

[be5invis]

@eevan78 Italic џ is handled in different ways in sans-serif fonts: some of them use off-center bars and some of them use detached bar. Perhaps we could try the detached variant.

Noto Sans

[be5invis]

This should look better

[eevan78]

Yes, I agree, this one looks better. Thanks!