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James Cloos cloos@jhcloos.com changed:
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--- Comment #1 from James Cloos cloos@jhcloos.com 2010-06-27 14:04:35 EDT --- This one got me curious.
It looks like only the sans and mono faces have that lean; the descender remains vertical in Serif-Regular and Serif-Bold and has the same slope in Italic and BoldItalic as those fonts’ italic angle, AFAICT at screen resolution.
Looking at the »γ« glyph in the Regular faces in fontforge shows that the slant is intentional to the design; the descender is an extension on the right stroke.
I took a look at several fonts and that does seem to be an unique design decision. Most other fonts tend to either extend to left stroke or make the descender an overlapping extension of both strokes.
An interesting issue, indeed!