Rendering of accent components in variable fonts on Mac OS
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James Puckett
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Has anyone else noticed that Mac OS renders accents that are components in variable fonts lighter than they should be? An example follows. Eacute is built of E+acutecomb.case, and acutecomb.case is a component of gravecomb.case. The weight difference decreases as size increases until the weight is the same at 126px.
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Possibly what's happened is that because the path of the grave has been mirrored to get the acute, the path direction has been reversed. A path going the wrong direction can affect weight with some renderers.6
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Thanks Mark! I forgot to break down my accents for variable fonts.0
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