[Ubuntu] thick underline

[paolobenve]

Describe the bug

The metric that specify the underline thickness sets it too thick.

To Reproduce

use libreoffice 24.2+, make a new document and add characters, give them ubuntu font, and underline them: the underlining line appears too thick

Expected behavior

The line should be thinner

Screenshots

Additional context

Version: 24.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 480(Build:2)
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: es-DO (C.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 4:24.8.4rc2-0ubuntu0.24.04.1lo1
Calc: threaded

This LO version uses native font metric for underlining

[kenmcd]

This should be posted in the upstream repo.
https://github.com/canonical/Ubuntu-Sans-fonts/issues

Note, the underline position and thickness is the same for all weights.
So the Light and Regular may look a little heavy.
And the Bold and ExtraBold may look a little light.

Common for fonts to have all weights be the same now.
Then if you underline some text in applications such as LibreOffice you can mix Regular and Bold without looking odd.
But it is a trade-off as single weights may not be visually optimal.

LibreOffice used to ignore the font settings and had just one same generic underline position and thickness for all fonts - which usually looked pretty bad (too tight and too thin). Using the actual font settings is relatively new.

Anyway, you need to report this in the source repo.