Weird Windows 10 font issue: installs fine, previews fine, defaults to Arial in Word

Saga Söderback
Saga Söderback Posts: 44
in Font Technology
Hi all –

Is Windows 10 goofy with TTFs in some way? I am testing out a font I hinted but I'm getting a wacky issue. The font installs fine. It looks correct in the small preview of an Explorer window of the Fonts directory. It is correct in the small drop-down font selection preview in Word. Type with it, though, and you get Arial. Never seen anything like this before.

The font passes validation (including rasterization). I deleted the font cache and restarted. impallari.com show it fine. There are zero issues with it working properly on the Mac side.

Any ideas? I am stumped. I have diffed with properly working files pre-hints and the only differences are:

- a few glyph list changes, making glyf, loca, and UnicodeRange & ulCodePageRange diffs in OS/2
- checksum and date modified in head

(besides the obvious diffs one would create due to hinting in VDMX, LTSH, gasp, hdmx, prep, fpgm, cvt, maxp)

Thanks for any thoughts...
Micah
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  • Saga Söderback
    Saga Söderback Posts: 44
    Other random things I have tried:
    fsType in OS/2 to Installable, Editable, etc
    different versions of the OS/2 table (3, 4)
  • Saga Söderback
    Saga Söderback Posts: 44
    Latest test: using the "Ship Font" function in VTT instead of deleting the TSI tables by hand (my usual workflow). No luck.
  • Jens Kutilek
    Jens Kutilek Posts: 378
    My guess is the changes in UnicodeRange & ulCodePageRange may be responsible for the behaviour.
  • SiDaniels
    SiDaniels Posts: 277
    Jens is probably right. Word is likely deciding it doesn't support Latin when you start typing. Happy to take a look if you want to send it my way. Cheers, Si
  • Saga Söderback
    Saga Söderback Posts: 44
    Well, wouldn't you know it: ulCodePageRange was wrong in the new files. I wonder if Glyphs introduced that error when I was subsetting there...? Strange. I'll see if I can duplicate it.

    Thanks very much, gentlemen. Enjoy your weekends.
  • Hin-Tak Leung
    Hin-Tak Leung Posts: 363
    edited January 2017
    Hmm, but font validator checks ulCodePageRange, about bits set and missing glyphs and also bits clear but glyphs present. Did the warnings not happen?
  • LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
    LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland Posts: 759
    For checking and altering also the consistency checker of OTM can be used.
  • Saga Söderback
    Saga Söderback Posts: 44
    Hin-Tak Leung said:
    Hmm, but font validator checks ulCodePageRange, about bits set and missing glyphs and also bits clear but glyphs present. Did the warnings not happen?
    Hm, interestingly, I don't think it threw a warning... I'll recheck later tomorrow and get back to you.

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