News Cycle font (normal, not bold) is suddenly mashed

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
- Just trying to use the font simply as per attached news.html.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
- The font has worked beautiful for weeks. Now suddenly the letters vary in 
size and shape and thickness.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
- The 'normal' (not 'bold') version of News Cycle, on Windows 7. 

Additional Information
- It's mashed in all the browsers I've tried (FireFox, IE9, Chrome).

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by helenthe...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 9:57

Attachments:

• news-cycle_mashed.png
• news.html

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Yes, we have the same problem here on our website, using the news cycle normal. 
The bold version looks fine.

Original comment by 7evenele...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 10:36

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Having the same problem as well. I have a new website, and it was working fine 
until today. I'm viewing on a Mac, through Chrome, Firefox 11, and Safari. Only 
News Cycle affected. See attached. 

Original comment by gaynelle...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 11:20

Attachments:

• [Font problem.pdf](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/googlefontdirectory/issue-127/comment-2/Font problem.pdf)

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FWIW, code for News Cycle--shows "normal" rather than "400". Would be great if 
this issue could be reviewed and addressed. Thanks.

Original comment by gaynelle...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2012 at 10:58

Attachments:

• [News Cycle code.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/googlefontdirectory/issue-127/comment-3/News Cycle code.png)

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Having the same problem (with Firefox, Chrome and Opera, at least).

A freshly FontSquirreled local version of the font works fine.

Original comment by the...@gmail.com on 10 Apr 2012 at 6:01

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Sorry about this, a FontForge bug mishandled the latin subset file. I fixed 
this with 
http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/detail?r=90de81f0047a3901d26
0a8e8e5522a98c15b7bb0 and it should go to production servers tomorrow 
2012-04-10 in the morning California time

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 10 Apr 2012 at 6:24

• Changed state: Done

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Thanks. Looks much better, but now the dots on lowercase i's and j's seem to 
have been misplaced.

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Cottser/BPZhU/

Original comment by cott...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2012 at 12:56

Attachments:

• news_cycle_dots.png

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i'm having exactly the same problem with that font. i managed to make it work 
for a while, after changing the font-url and setting it back again... maybe 
that really helped or google fixed it

Original comment by adis.dur...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2012 at 6:09

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I'm having the same problem with the dots on the lowercase i and j, even just 
created a new page from scratch and the problem still persists.

Original comment by do...@october29.com on 12 Apr 2012 at 2:59

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Is there any plan for this to get fixed? I see this issued was closed and 
marked as fixed on April 9 but the problem with the dots on the lower case 
letters is still there, I've regenerated the code from Google and that doesn't 
fix the problem, see http://allegoriesandexperiences.com/ and 
http://gagliostro.com/

Original comment by do...@october29.com on 13 Apr 2012 at 12:12

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i's and j's okay on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on Mac / iPhone. Took a look at 
your sites and they seem to render fine too. Since I've gone back to using News 
Cycle on my site, curious to know what browser / system you're using and still 
seeing this problem.

Original comment by gaynelle...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2012 at 2:51

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I'm seeing almost the opposite of #10.

I just tested an array of browsers locally and on BrowserStack. Every browser I 
tested on Mac (local and remote via BrowserStack) had messed up i's and j's. 
Opera, Chrome, Safari, Firefox.

Every other platform I tested was okay: Windows, iOS, Android, Opera Mobile.

Original comment by cott...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2012 at 3:36

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I'm using a Mac (OS X 10.6.8), tested on Chrome 18.0.1025.162, Safari 5.1.5 and 
Firefox 11.0. Have flushed caches and restarted. (And iOS are fine for me as 
well.) One site is a single page, code straight from Google; the other site is 
Drupal and code is generated by a module. I really really like this font after 
spending hours looking at all sans-serifs so I don't want to switch. And 
switching to the FontSquirrel version doesnt' seem an ideal solution. 

Original comment by do...@october29.com on 13 Apr 2012 at 4:36

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Hello everyone. I am sorry I made a mistake when updating News Cycle to add a 
bold, somehow FontForge got confused and didn't include half the glyphs in the 
Latin subset, and I didn't catch this in my QA before pushing it. When I fixed 
this I introduced a regression that made the 'i' dots 'fall down' and I have 
finally fixed this. The fix should be fully propagated in 48 hours.

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 26 Apr 2012 at 12:58

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Thank you!

Original comment by gaynelle...@gmail.com on 26 Apr 2012 at 1:01

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Issue 131 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by pathum...@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2014 at 5:37