Variable Font Rendering Distorts Master
I'm getting some weird things happening with a 4-axis font I'm working on.
Illustrator seems to mangle the outlines for some of the masters. I realize this font is doing some weird stuff, but hoping for some clarification if it's a bug in Illustrator or my font. It appears correctly on the web though, on Axis Praxis(Chrome).
I'm attaching the ttf. It only has an 'H' glyph present. If it's helpful, there's more information about the typeface and intentions at the link below. This issue is related to an upcoming version which isn't available yet. https://www.futurefonts.xyz/scribble-tone/whoa
Mac OS 10.14.4
Illustrator(latest version)
Photoshop(latest version)
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Travis Kochel
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Thomas Phinney commented
I have seen and reported this as well (with a three-axis and later four-axis font) and have heard it from a few other type designers. In our case it is related to specific bits of the design space, and is happening with a somewhat more traditional font, Science Gothic. The problem occurs in shipping versions of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, but not in any browsers.
Our font is at https://github.com/tphinney/science-gothic/blob/master/fonts/variable/UFO%20FontMake/ScienceGothicVF.ttf -
Travis Kochel
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Just an update. It appears the issue is related to whatever values are set as the axis 'default' in the designspace file. If the value is an intermediate, even if there's a master at that location, I get the error.
But if I use values from the extremes, everything works correctly? More info here: https://github.com/scribbletone/whoa-var-debug
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Travis Kochel
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I'm getting some weird things happening with a 4-axis font I'm working on.
Illustrator seems to mangle the outlines for some of the masters. I realize this font is doing some weird stuff, but hoping for some clarification if it's a bug in Illustrator or my font. It appears correctly on the web though, on Axis Praxis(Chrome).
Here's a ttf showing the issue. It only has an 'H' glyph present. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1thbfLniU2DsMd_crKE9yRNfSEPbF2dLw/view?usp=sharing
If it's helpful, there's more information about the typeface and intentions at the link below. This issue is related to an upcoming version which isn't available yet. https://www.futurefonts.xyz/scribble-tone/whoa
Mac OS 10.14.4
Illustrator(latest version)
Photoshop(latest version)Thanks!
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Travis Kochel
commented
I'm getting some weird things happening with a 4-axis font I'm working on.
Illustrator seems to mangle the outlines for some of the masters. I realize this font is doing some weird stuff, but hoping for some clarification if it's a bug in Illustrator or my font. It appears correctly on the web though, on Axis Praxis(Chrome).
I'm attaching the ttf. It only has an 'H' glyph present. If it's helpful, there's more information about the typeface and intentions at the link below. This issue is related to an upcoming version which isn't available yet. https://www.futurefonts.xyz/scribble-tone/whoa
Mac OS 10.14.4
Illustrator(latest version)
Photoshop(latest version)Thanks!